Cat A strong tackle or combination

Cat A strong tackle or combination

Cat. A strong tackle, or combination of pulleys, to hook and draw in the anchor perpendicularly up to the cat-head of the ship.

Cat. A small kind of anchor is sometimes called a cat or ketch; by the Dutch, "Kat."

Cat. "At the edge of the moat, opposite the wooden tower, a strong penthouse, which they called a 'cat,' might be seen stealing towards the curtain, and gradually filling up the moat with facines and rubbish." Read Cloister and Hearth, chap, xliii. (Davis' "Glossary.")

Catacide. A cat-killer (Bailey, 1726).

Catamount. Cat of the mountain, the ordinary wild cat, when found on the mountains, among the rocks or woods.

Cat and trap. A game or play (Ainsworth). This is probably that known as "trap, bat, and ball," as on striking the trap, after the ball is placed on the lever, it is propelled upwards, and then struck by the batsman.

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