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Definition of Catting
1. cat [v] - See also: cat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catting
Literary usage of Catting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Civil Engineer's Pocket-book by John Cresson Trautwine (1907)
"I. When the catting plane does not cat the base. Figs 13, 14. ... When tne catting
plane touches the base. Figs A to D. of base) Carved surface ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... and in ibis way & cow for instance can be represented drinking, or a donkey
catting amusing capers. ..."
3. The Microscope and its revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1891)
"Treadle machine for catting hard sections. I-lit of the cover for the disc, to
prevent the emery flying about. • «x beneath also catches the powder that ..."
4. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"... had no knife to cut with, the thumb nail was cultivated to serve as an instrument
for catting throats ! ..."
5. Curran and His Contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1862)
"It must be an amusing thing to see a cat running across a piano, and catting it
music." Mr. Curran sprang from the people,* and he not only never forgot it, ..."
6. A New Malagasy-English Dictionary by James Richardson (1885)
"... to «poil by careless adaptation or catting, etc. УГ L AHA, -¡.i/. Crooked,
turned aside, л- the mouth ..."
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