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cat-a-mountain

cat-a-mountain is the alternative spelling of catamountain.

Meaning of catamountain

Noun

catamountain (plural catamountains)

  1. (also, attributive) A leopard, a panther (Panthera pardus); also, an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis).
    • Goe, charge my Goblins that they grinde their ioynts / With dry Convultions, ſhorten vp their ſinewes / With aged Cramps, & more pinch-ſpotted make them, / Than Pard, or Cat o' Mountaine.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
    Synonyms:
    catamount
  2. (broadly) A man living in the mountains.

Forms of cat-a-mountain

pluralcat-a-mountains

Questions about cat-a-mountain

What is cat-a-mountain the alternative spelling of?
Cat-a-mountain is the alternative spelling of catamountain.

Words near cat-a-mountain in the dictionary

  1. cat's-eye
  2. cat's-eyed
  3. cat's-paw
  4. cat's-paws
  5. cat-
  6. cat-a-mountain
  7. cat-a-mountains
  8. cat-and-mouse
  9. cat-and-moused
  10. cat-and-mouses
  11. cat-and-mousing

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