The following are culled from the well-known and useful book

The following are culled from the well-known and useful book

The following are culled from the well-known and useful book, Jamieson's "Scottish Dictionary":

Cat. A small bit of rag, rolled up and put between the handle of a pot and the hook which suspends it over the fire, to raise it a little. Roxb.

Cat. A handful of straw, with or without corn upon it, or of reaped grain, laid on the ground by the reaper without being put into a sheaf (Roxb., Dumfr.). Perhaps from the Belg. word katt-en, to throw, the handful of corn being cast on the ground; whence kat, a small anchor.

Fonte: Cats