kitcat

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kitcat - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Kitcat \Kit"cat`\, n.
     A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood,
     called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases;
     tipcat. --Cotton.
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     Kitcat roll (Agric.), a roller somewhat in the form of two
        cones set base to base. [Prov. Eng.]
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  Kitcat \Kit"cat`\, a.
     1. Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele
        belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry
        cook, who served the club with mutton pies.
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     2. Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar
        size, viz., twenty-eight or twenty-nine inches by
        thirty-six; -- so called because that size was adopted by
        Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the
        members of the Kitcat Club. --Fairholt.
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