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tip-cat
[f. tip v.2 + cat n.1]
1. A short piece of wood tapering at both ends, used in the game described in 2: = cat n.1 10 a.
1676Grew Disc. Salts Plants ii. §6 The Crystals..were about the bigness of a Rice-Corn. In Figure almost like a Tip-Cat, which Boys play with. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xvi. (Roxb.) 82/1 Striker or cat stick and tip cat. 1798Sporting Mag. XII. 194 [He] nearly got his eye knocked out by a boy's tip cat. 1853Times 12 Apr., Persons whose eyes have been hopelessly destroyed by blows from tip-cats.
2. A game in which the wooden cat or tip-cat (see 1) is struck or ‘tipped’ at one end with a stick so as to spring up, and then knocked to a distance by the same player: = cat n.1 10 b.
1801Strutt Sports & Past. ii. iii. §22 Tip-cat, or perhaps more properly the game of cat, is a rustic pastime well known in many parts of the kingdom. 1854Macaulay Biog., Bunyan (1860) 30 The..chief sins..were dancing, ringing the bells of the parish church, playing at tipcat. 1876World VI. No. 106. 11 The game of tip-cat is also..in full swing. 1907Sat. Rev. 30 Mar. 390/1 Playing tip-cat..requires a good deal of neatness and quickness to tip the cat smartly. |