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cat ((2))
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
rolls or blocks of wet clay used as bricks in the building of one kind of chimney in colonial times.
See: clay cat
Quotations
1853
There is another kind of chimney which . . . answers very well for a shanty, if constructed with cats.
1863
. . . he inquired abruptly why they hadn't built their chimney of "cats." "Mine is of cats," said Mr. Logan. "Cats is clay," he continued sententiously, "kinder like straw an' clay mixed up. . . ."