| 释义 |
ˈram-cat Now only dial.
[f. ram n.1: see cat n.1 1 b.]
A male cat.
1672J. Josselyn New Eng. Rarities 16 The Ounce or Wild Cat, is about the bigness of two lusty Ram Cats. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) II. xlviii. 103 The skin and feet of a special ram-cat, newly flayed. 1802Wolcott (P. Pindar) Gt. Cry & Lit. Wool Wks. 1816 IV. 264 He..already has kill'd one Ram Cat. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. vii. (1820) 414 Like two furious ram cats on the very point of a clapper-clawing. 1880–in dial. glossaries (Som., Devon, Cornwall). |