DCHP-3

wild cat

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.

1

one of seral varieties of lynx, especially the Canada lynx.

Quotations

1749
Upon the thirty-first, some of the People searching a Rabbet Snare, found only a Part of a Rabbet, the other Part being eat by a wild Cat, whose Track was perceptible in the Snow.
1789
The animal which the ancients called the Lynx, known in Siberia by the name of the Ounce, is only called the WILD CAT in Canada.
1895
The cry of wild cats was no new thing to them.
1953
The bank was very steep--I had not gone very far before I met a lynx or wildcat.
2

the flesh of the lynx used as food.

Quotations

1765
Here they live on the . . . game which they frequently kill, as hares and partridges, lynxes or wild cats, otters, martins. . . .
1893
One day as we rose from a rather poor breakfast which consisted principally of a piece of cooked wild cat, Mrs. Young said to me. . . .
1897
During the other six months we lived principally upon game, such as venison, bear's meat, beaver, wild-cat. . . .
3

the fur of the lynx.

Quotations

1828
There various furs for caps are found: . . . beaver, coon, wild cat. . . .