cat

/kat/

#1,734 of the most-used English words

noun

1. An animal of the family Felidae:
2. A person:
3. A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
4. Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.

Similar: saber-tooth, saber-toothed cat, feline, feline cat, pantherine, pantherine cat

verb

1. To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
2. To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
3. To vomit.
4. To go wandering at night.

noun

1. A twin-hulled ship or boat.
2. A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
3. A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.
4. An old kind of fireship.

Similar: twinhull

noun

1. A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.