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Webster 1913 Edition
Catling
Cat′ling
,Noun.
[
Cat
+ -ing
.] 1.
A little cat; a kitten.
“Cat nor catling.” Drummond.
2.
Catgut; a catgut string.
[R.]
Shak.
3.
(Surg.)
A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.
[Spelt also
catlin
.] Crobb.
Webster 1828 Edition
Catling
CATLING
,Noun.
1.
A dismembering knife, used by surgeons.2.
The down or moss growing about walnut trees, resembling the hair of a cat.3.
Catgut.Definition 2024
catling
catling
English
Noun
catling (plural catlings)
- A little cat; a kitten.
- (Can we date this quote?), Drummond, (Please provide the title of the work):
- Cat nor catling.
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- catgut; a catgut string
- (Can we date this quote?), Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, Act 4, Scene 5:
- "..what say you, Simon Catling?
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- (surgery) A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.
- 1852, Joseph Pancoast, A Treatise on Operative Surgery:
- The operator […] grasping the soft parts immediately below, raises them so as to facilitate the passage of a double-edged knife or catling across the face of the bones […]
- 1878, Maryland Medical Journal: Medicine and Surgery, volume 4, page 284:
- […] after Esmarch we hold back the bloody torrent which once gushed forth after the catling; and Listerizing with Lister's spray we bar all passage into gaping wounds of motes that people the sunbeam and breed havoc in the tract of the sanguineous life stream.
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Synonyms
- (knife): catlin