A young animal, especially a young tiger or other large cat; a cub or whelp.
Possibly from French 'chiot' (puppy) or a variant spelling influenced by Old French. The English usage is archaic and rare, appearing primarily in older hunting and natural history texts.
Chiot is one of those English words that sounds French and probably is—it shows how medieval English hunting vocabulary borrowed heavily from Norman French, the language of medieval English nobility.
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