? tip-cat or some other game with a cat (see 10 above).

The piece of wood pointed at the ends used in tip-cat; the ‘cat’; also the game itself. Also attributive, as trippet-stick. northern dialect.

A term used in various games. The game itself; tip-cat.

The game of tip-cat.

= cat's-pellet n.

A game in which the wooden cat or tip-cat (see 1) is struck or ‘tipped’ at one end with a stick so as to spring up, and then knocked to a distance…

A game played with a piece of wood called a cat (cf. cat, n.1 10a) and a club called a dog.

English regional (northern) and Irish English (northern) The game of tipcat (tipcat, n. 2); the ‘cat’ or piece of wood used in this game.

= sense 2; cf. piggy-stick, n. 2.

= tipcat, n.