The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hell-cat
Hell-cat \Hell"-cat `\, n.
A witch; a hag.
--Middleton.
Usage examples of "hell-cat".
But that’s because ye don’t gawm the sorrowin’ mother was a hell-cat that hated him because he was acrewk’d, a regular lamiter he was, an’ he hated her so that he committed suicide in order that she mightn’t get an insurance she put on his life.