tipcat

English

Alternative forms

• tip-cat

Etymology

tip +‎ cat

Noun

tipcat (countable and uncountable, plural tipcats)

1. (uncountable) An old game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, to make it travel through the air as far as possible.
   • 1838, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome:

     In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand.

2. (countable) The wooden piece used in this game.

   Synonym: cat

Related terms

• catstick

Translations

game in which a wooden piece is struck with a stick

• Catalan: bòlit (ca) m
• Erzya: дёко (ďoko)
• French: ^{(please verify)} bâtonnet (fr) m
• Galician: billarda f, estornela f, birlo m
• Irish: cead m
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• Italian: lippa f
• Russian: чи́жик (ru) m (čížik)
• Spanish: tala (es) f, toña f
• Venetian: (Verona) s-cianco m

wooden piece used in tipcat

• Catalan: bòlit (ca) m
• French: bâtonnet (fr) m
• Galician: billarda f, estornela f
• Irish: cead m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: lippa f
• Russian: чи́жик (ru) m (čížik)
• Spanish: tala (es) f, toña f
• Venetian: (Verona) s-cianco m

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tipcat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)