cat-stickn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cat n.¹, stick n.¹

Etymology: < cat n.¹ (compare cat n.¹ 10) + stick n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcat-stick.

A stick or bat used in the games of tip-cat and trap-ball.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > tip-cat > [noun] > stick or bat

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a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women i. ii, in 2 New Playes (1657) 97 Prethee lay up my Cat and Cat-stick safe.

a1652 R. Brome New Acad. iii. i. 61 in Five New Playes (1659) That gall their hands with stool-balls, or their Cat-sticks.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Catstick, used by Boies at Trap-ball.

1712 S. Centlivre Perplex'd Lovers iii. iii. 25 E'gad my Legs are fall'n away to Catsticks.

1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) IV. iv. 16 Armed with prongs, pitchforks, clubs, and catsticks.

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Catstick, a stick or cudgel used by New England boys in a game at ball... In Pennsylvania, Maryland, and further south, the term is applied to small wood for burning.

1867 J. R. Lowell Fitz Adam's Story 466 And more to abate the price, his gimlet eye Would pierce to catsticks that none else could spy.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	cat-stick
释义	cat-stickn. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cat n.¹, stick n.¹ Etymology: < cat n.¹ (compare cat n.¹ 10) + stick n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcat-stick. A stick or bat used in the games of tip-cat and trap-ball. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > tip-cat > [noun] > stick or bat cat-sticka1627 cat1636 a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women i. ii, in 2 New Playes (1657) 97 Prethee lay up my Cat and Cat-stick safe. a1652 R. Brome New Acad. iii. i. 61 in Five New Playes (1659) That gall their hands with stool-balls, or their Cat-sticks. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Catstick, used by Boies at Trap-ball. 1712 S. Centlivre Perplex'd Lovers iii. iii. 25 E'gad my Legs are fall'n away to Catsticks. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) IV. iv. 16 Armed with prongs, pitchforks, clubs, and catsticks. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Catstick, a stick or cudgel used by New England boys in a game at ball... In Pennsylvania, Maryland, and further south, the term is applied to small wood for burning. 1867 J. R. Lowell Fitz Adam's Story 466 And more to abate the price, his gimlet eye Would pierce to catsticks that none else could spy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1627
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