catstick
See also: cat-stick
English
Etymology
Noun
catstick (usually uncountable, plural catsticks) (games)
- (countable) A stick or club used in the game of tipcat.
- c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:
- You, ſirrha; Sheepes-head, / VVith a face cut on a cat-ſticke, Doe you heare?
- (uncountable) The game of tipcat.
Alternative forms
Further reading
- “catstick”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.