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chetah

British  
/ ˈtʃiːtə /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of cheetah

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The next fancy bait I tried was a chetah—dead.

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A large Asiatic cat known as the chetah is somewhat used in hunting for sport, but the species has never been adopted in any definite way.

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The chetah is a great big cat But very quick, for all of that, She's cunning but she's gentle, too, And if you're good she's good to you.

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If this large spotted cat, known in other parts of the world as ounce, jaguar, leopard and chetah, has any choice of diet, it is for veal.

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Out rolled furs, many and many of them, black, and yellow, and striped--the pelts of the grizzly, of the leopard, the chetah, the royal Bengal himself.

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