"caut" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /kɔːt/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: cauteth [present, singular, third-person], cauting [participle, present], cauted [participle, past], cauted [past]
enPR: kôt [Received-Pronunciation] Rhymes: -ɔːt Etymology: Onomatopoeia. Head templates: {{en-verb|cauteth|cauting|cauted}} caut (third-person singular simple present cauteth, present participle cauting, simple past and past participle cauted)
  1. (obsolete) To emit the characteristic call of a panther. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-caut-en-verb-xSVLKyFp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 48 46 0 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 48 46 0 7
  2. (obsolete, by extension, figurative) To make a noise similar to the call of a panther. Tags: broadly, figuratively, obsolete
    Sense id: en-caut-en-verb--IQo5K-2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 48 46 0 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 48 46 0 7
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          "ref": "1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, or A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon, volume 2, page 134, column 2",
          "text": "A Panther Cauteth, which word is taken from the sound of his voice."
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        "(obsolete) To emit the characteristic call of a panther."
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          "ref": "1722 May 2nd, Ebenezer Elliston, “The Laſt Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezer Elliſton” in Miſcellanies (ed. Jonathan Swift, pub. 1751, volume nine, fifth edition), pages 19–20",
          "text": "If I have done Service to Men in what I have ſaid, I ſhall hope I have done Service to God; and that will be better than a ſilly Speech made for me, full of whining and cauting, which I utterly deſpiſe, and have never been uſed to; yet ſuch a one I expect to have my Ears tormented with, as I am paſſing along the Streets[.]"
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        "To make a noise similar to the call of a panther."
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        "(obsolete, by extension, figurative) To make a noise similar to the call of a panther."
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      "enpr": "kôt",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kɔːt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔːt"
    }
  ],
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  "etymology_text": "Onomatopoeia.",
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    },
    {
      "form": "cauting",
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        "participle",
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    },
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      "form": "cauted",
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        "participle",
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      ]
    },
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      "form": "cauted",
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        {
          "ref": "1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, or A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon, volume 2, page 134, column 2",
          "text": "A Panther Cauteth, which word is taken from the sound of his voice."
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      ],
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        "To emit the characteristic call of a panther."
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        "(obsolete) To emit the characteristic call of a panther."
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          "text": "If I have done Service to Men in what I have ſaid, I ſhall hope I have done Service to God; and that will be better than a ſilly Speech made for me, full of whining and cauting, which I utterly deſpiſe, and have never been uſed to; yet ſuch a one I expect to have my Ears tormented with, as I am paſſing along the Streets[.]"
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        "To make a noise similar to the call of a panther."
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        "(obsolete, by extension, figurative) To make a noise similar to the call of a panther."
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      "enpr": "kôt",
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kɔːt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔːt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "caut"
}

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