† cat-bandn.
Scottish. Obsolete.
‘A bar or iron for securing a door; a chain drawn across a street for defence’ (Jamieson). The exact sense is doubtful.
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1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 507 Also the toun..made catbands of yron to hold off horses, brought the canons..within the toune, &c.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 138 To mak preparatiouns for..defenss..to big wp thair bak yettis, clois thair portis, haue thair catbandis in reddiness.
1671 Acts Sederunt Scotl. (1740) I. 73 In case they have not sufficient Catbands upon the Doors of their Prisons.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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