Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The native name of the guepard or hunting-leopard of India, Felis jubata, now Gueparda jubata or Cynœlurus jubatus, a large spotted cat, somewhat like a dog in shape, with long legs, non-retractile claws, and the upper sectorial tooth without an internal lobe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
cheetah .
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- noun Archaic form of
cheetah .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game
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Examples
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(A large Asiatic cat known as the chetah is somewhat)
Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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A large Asiatic cat known as the chetah is somewhat used in hunting for sport, but the species has never been adopted in any definite way.
Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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The "chetah" is much smaller than the leopard, seldom exceeding seven feet from the nose to the end of tile tail.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857
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The chetah was quickly unhooded, and loosed from his bonds; and as soon as he viewed the deer he dropped quietly off the cart, on the _opposite_ side to that on which they stood, and approached them at a slow, crouching canter, masking himself by every bush and inequality of ground which lay in in his way.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) Various
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Thus the chetah of India (and probably the puma of Brazil) from far-back times took to hunting in the company of his two-legged and bow-and-arrow-armed friend, with whom he divided the spoil.
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Sometimes Yir Massir would take out a chetah -- a nasty, snarling, pin-headed piece of long-legged malice -- and walk him up and down on a dog-chain, same as a woman walks her King Charlie.
It, and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914
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I'd told Ivy where I was going to spread the chetah and that after that I'd come straight home.
It, and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914
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Result: one neat and very flat rug made out of chetah.
It, and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914
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