The word of the day is catamount:

Shortened < catamountain n.,(Show Less) apparently of English formation: it does not appear that the Middle English ‘cat of the mountain’ was a translation from another language.

 

1. = catamountain n.; a pard or panther. Obs.  

 

2. A common name in U.S. of the puma or cougar ( Felis concolor), also called Panther, Painter, and Mountain (or American) Lion.  (OED)

"serving the larger brain the cows eat so we will eat we guarantee
digestion is the only work they do heads down tails up
for the maximum yield they won't have sex
they get some grain some salt they get their shots no catamounts
no wolves we fertilize the fields we put up bales of hay"

 - Ellen Bryant Voigt, "Cow", 6 December 2010 The New Yorker

The word of the day is stanchion:

estanchon, estançon (modern French étançon), < estance prop < popular Latin *stantia: see stance n.²... 

An upright bar, stay, prop or support.  (OED)

"end of the day daylight subsiding into the trees lights coming on

in the milking barns as somewhere out in the yard some ants

are tucking in their aphids for the night behind

hydrangea leaves or in their stanchions underground

they have been bred for it the smaller brain"

 - Ellen Bryant Voigt, "Cow", 6 December 2010 The New Yorker