† barbed-cat Obs.
A military engine; see quot.
| 1489 Caxton Faytes of A. ii. xxix. I vj b, For to make a werrely holde that men calle a barbed catte, and a bewfray that shal have ix. fadome of lengthe and two of brede, and the said catte six fadome of lengthe and two of brede. |