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n. (plural of cat-harpin English)
Usage examples of "cat-harpins".
Charles Loveless had no notion of cross cat-harpins, still less of Bentinck shrouds.
He spoke feelingly on the good effect of cat-harpins, well-sniftered in.
But after no more than a moment's gravity he joined in the general congratulation and then told them (not without a certain satisfaction, having suffered much from cat-harpins and nether dog-pawls) that pica was the type that gave you six ems to the inch, and that all books, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo or even less, took their dimensions from the original sheets, folded twice, four times, eight times and so on, as the case might be, the original sheets having themselves various sizes and names, as foolscap, crown, quad crown, double quad crown, post, demy, royal and many more.