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Meaning of KITCAT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \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.
    2. Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar
       size, viz., twenty-right 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.
    
  2. \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.
    {Kitcat roll} (Agric.), a roller somewhat in the form of two
       cones set base to base. [Prov. Eng.]
    
 
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