meow
noun
the characteristic sound a cat makes.
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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Hike had meowed for air and exercise just as the village had been neared, and Winona had taken that means of giving it to him, without risking his running off.
From Winona of the Camp Fire by Widdemer, Margaret