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catling|ˈkætlɪŋ|
Also 7 catlin.
[f. cat n. + -ling, dim. suffix. The connexion of sense 3 does not appear: perh. it is a distinct word.]
1. A little cat; a kitten.
c1630Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 50 Never cat nor catling I shall find. 1791Huddesford Salmag. 134 Cats and Catlings of ignoble line. 1866Ld. Osborne Educ. Children 23 The fate of the brother and sister catlings.
2. Catgut for a violin, lute, or the like; ‘the smallest-sized lute-strings’ (Stainer & Barrett).
[1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iv. v. 132 (To Musician) What say you Simon Catling?] 1606― Tr. & Cr. iii. iii. 306 Vnlesse the Fidler Apollo get his sinewes to make catlings on. 1708Kersey, Catlings or Catlins, a sort of small Cat-gut Strings for Musical Instruments. 1721C. King Brit. Merch. I. 284 Lutestrings, Catlings, Minikings. 1812J. Smyth Pract. Customs 53 Catlings are small strings for fiddles and other musical instruments. 1833Act 3 & 4 Will. IV, lvi, Catlings, the Gross, containing 12 Dozen Knots.
b. transf. (pl.) Stringed instruments.
1652Benlowes Theoph. iii. li, Still Tort'ring the deep mouth'd Catlins, till Hoarse-thundring Diapasons should the whole room fill.
3. Surg. ‘A long, narrow, double-edged, sharp-pointed, straight knife for performing amputations’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 2 Of the dismembring knife, and of the Catling..Whatsoever the Catling or dismembring knife cannot come at by reason of their greatnesse, etc. 1689Moyle Sea Chyrurg. ii. i. 25 With your Catling divide the Vessels between the bones. 1824Ann. Reg. Chron. 16 Jan. 9/1 Sir Astley [Cooper]..with the limb in one hand, and the catling in the other, commenced the operation.
†4. = catkin. (But possibly a misprint.) Obs.
1665–76Ray Flora 221 The flowers [of mulberry] are downy Catlins, which turn into berries. 1704Harris (J.), Catling, The down or moss growing about walnut-trees, resembling the hair of a cat. Hence in Kersey, Bailey, Johnson, and mod. Dicts. |