A stick or bat used in the games of tip-cat and trap-ball.
a. 1626. Massinger, Women beware W., I. ii. Prithee, lay up my cat and cat-stick safe.
[1652. Brome, New Acad., III. ii. Wks. 1873, II. 61. That gall their hands with stool-balls, or their Cat-sticks.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Catstick, used by Boies at Trap-ball.
1721. Mrs. Centlivre, Perpl. Lovers, III. E’gad my legs are fall’n away to catsticks!
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), IV. iv. 16. Armed with prongs, pitchforks, clubs, and catsticks.
