What is "catamounts"

Usage examples of "catamounts".

But no, the doors would all be barred and besides, there might be catamounts in the forest at night.

Wolves howled nearby at night, and several times they heard the screech of catamounts echoing between the peaks.

No, he druther hunt after catamounts and painters, in woods where catamounts haint mounted, and painters haint painted sence he wuz born.

Macurdy learned there were jaguars, catamounts, wolves and bears in the forests.

Jaguars and catamounts, bears and trolls, are not as terrible as men can be.

IV A-HUNTING OF THE DEER If civilization owes a debt of gratitude to the self-sacrificing sportsmen who have cleared the Adirondack regions of catamounts and savage trout, what shall be said of the army which has so nobly relieved them of the terror of the deer?

We hear catamounts, and the stealthy tread of things in the leaves, and the hooting of owls, and, when the moon rises, the laughter of the loon.

I'd heard similar noises from a variety of animals, from catamounts to hunting eagles, but I knew a human voice when I heard one.

I hadn't even paused to think that the shelter might have attracted bears, catamounts, or other unfriendly fauna.

I hadn't even paused to think that the shelter might have attracted bears, catamounts, or other unfriendly fauna.