The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cat \Cat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Catted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Catting.] (Naut.)
To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.
--Totten.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of cat English)
WordNet
See cat
n. feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar; domestic cats; wildcats [syn: true cat]
an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll" [syn: guy, hombre, bozo]
a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!"
the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults" [syn: kat, khat, qat, quat, Arabian tea, African tea]
a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat" [syn: cat-o'-nine-tails]
a large vehicle that is driven by caterpillar tracks; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work [syn: Caterpillar]
any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild [syn: big cat]
a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis [syn: computerized tomography, computed tomography, CT, computerized axial tomography, computed axial tomography]
v. beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]
Usage examples of "catting".
She's catting for a fuck, that she's been paid to come here has nothing to do with it now .
But I must say, I find it appalling that they're off catting when they were brought here for Jillian.
They went to Durrkesh because Ramsay suggested they go—not for catting, but to acquire wares that can only be purchased in the city.
They went to Durrkesh because Ramsay suggested they go-not for catting, but to acquire wares that can only be purchased in the city.
Maybe she was doing the catting, and figured she could lap up more cream with him dead.
She had told Alf, who had a persistent lurid curiosity concerning Robbie's catting about.
She had nursed me back to some kind of balance after a couple of years of too much cutting up and catting around with Sampson and a few other single friends, including the fast crowd that played baskethall with the Washington Bullets.