catstick

See also: cat-stick

English

Etymology

From cat +‎ stick.

Noun

catstick (usually uncountable, plural catsticks) (games)

1. (countable) A stick or club used in the game of tipcat.
   • c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:

     You, ſirrha; Sheepes-head, / VVith a face cut on a cat-ſticke, Doe you heare?

2. (uncountable) The game of tipcat.

Alternative forms

• cat-stick

Further reading

• “catstick”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• tacticks