caut
verbUK /kɔːt/
Etymology Onomatopoeia.
1
Obsolete To emit the characteristic call of a panther.
- A Panther Cauteth, which word is taken from the sound of his voice.1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, or A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon, volume 2, page 134, column 2
2
Broadly, Figuratively, Obsolete To make a noise similar to the call of a panther.
- 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[.]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