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A long double-edged knife used for amputations
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catling
Word definitions for catling in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Catling \Cat"ling\, n. [Cat + -ing.] A little cat; a kitten. ``Cat nor catling.'' --Drummond. Catgut; a catgut string. [R.] --Shak. (Surg.) A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife. [Spelt also catlin .] --Crobb.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a long double-edged knife used for amputations
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A little cat; a kitten. 2 catgut; a catgut string 3 (context surgery English) A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Catling is an English surname that may also refer to a kitten , a juvenile cat. Notable people with the surname include: Brian Catling (born 1948), English sculptor, poet, novelist, film maker, and performance artist Hector Catling (1924–2013), British ...
Usage examples of catling.
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In Monique Ellis' The Year Father Christmas Came Catling, a bold burglary at a country inn brings a handsome world-weary Lord to Sarah Forte's doorstep, where he soon finds himself playing Father Christmas to a disarming group of orphans and the enchanting young woman he longs to make his Lady.
To one sitte there lay the grim saws, retractors, tenacula, scalpels, bistouries (sharp and blunt-pointed), forceps, trephines, single-edged amputating knives and catlings, arranged with loving care by Poll and her friend the bosun's wife's sister, both of whom wore starched aprons, bibs and sleeves, and white caps.
To one sitte there lay the grim saws, retractors, tenacula, scalpels, bistouries (sharp and blunt-pointed), forceps, trephines, single-edged amputating knives and catlings, arranged with loving care by Poll and her friend the bosun’s wife’s sister, both of whom wore starched aprons, bibs and sleeves, and white caps.
Clouds of chaff surrounded the carrier as the Catlings continued to track and fire, track and fire and fire and fire.
He swallowed the remaining grouts and hurried down to the orlop, where he found Poll and Harris, the ship's butcher: seamen had already lashed chests together to form two operating tables and Poll was making fast the covers of number eight sailcloth with a practised hand - she had already laid out a selection of saws, catlings, clamps, tourniquets, leather-covered chains, dressings, splints.
The guns were radar controlled, the Catlings used more as a last-ditch antimissile weapon.
An array of grim saws, retractors, scalpels, forceps, trephines, catlings and other mysterious torture instruments were arranged with loving care by Mrs.
The big Catling gun on the deck of the Enterprise opens up again and fires another meteorite of depleted uranium slugs into the side of an unoccupied barge about twenty feet from Hiro.
Now, as the AC-130s took off, their fuselages crammed with spare ammo for their Catlings, cannons, and 105mm howitzers, Hunter's F-16s were to fall in behind them, lifting off last to form the trailing edge of the air bridge.