catamount
ka tuh mownt
- n short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur
- n large American feline resembling a lion
- Pattern of all cowboy hell-raisers, he was so tough he rode a catamount, used a rattlesnake as quirt.
- In his novel about a catamount chase, Walter Van Tilburg Clark suggested that the evil his characters do stalks after them in the form of a black panther.
- Even the catamount Is nonplussed at that amount .