cat's-head
1. ‘A kind of apple’ (J.).
| 1617 Rider, A Cats head, Pomum decumanum. 1676 Worlidge Cyder (1691) 207 The Cats head, by some called the Go-no-further, is a very large Apple. 1767 Abercrombie Ev. Man own Gard. (1803) 671/2 List of Fruit Trees. Apples..French rennet, Cat's head, Leather-coat russet. |
2. An ornament in Norman architecture.
| 1848 Rickman Goth. Archit. (ed. 5) xxiii, The doorway..combines the zigzag, and cat's-head with the tooth ornament. 1853 A.P.S. Dict. of Arch. I, Bird's Head ornament, sometimes called Bird's beak head, and Cat's head molding..decoration consisting of conventional heads of monsters generally terminating in a beard formed of one or more other heads, of foliage, or of beaks. |
3. See cat-head n.