TIPCAT

tipcat

Noun

  1. An old game in which a small piece of wood, pointed at both ends, called a "cat", is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, to make it travel through the air as far as possible.
    In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand. — Macaulay.
  2. The wooden stick used in this game.


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