ˈcat-stick
A stick or bat used in the games of tip-cat and trap-ball.
| a 1626 Massinger Women beware W. i. ii, Prithee, lay up my cat and cat-stick safe. a 1652 Brome New Acad. iii. ii. Wks. 1873 II. 61 That gall their hands with stool-balls, or their Cat-sticks. 1690 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Catstick, used by Boies at Trap-ball. 1721 S. Centlivre Perpl. Lovers iii, E'gad my legs are fall'n away to catsticks! 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. iv. 16 Armed with prongs, pitchforks, clubs, and catsticks. |