Now dial. [Reduplicated from CAT sb., or with KIT sb.3] The game of tip-cat.
1664. Cotton, Scarron., IV. Poet. Wks. (1734), 88. Then in his Hand he takes a thick Bat, With which he us’d to play at Kit-Cat.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Kit-cat, a game played by three or more players. The cat is shaped like a double cone.
b. Comb. Kit-cat-roll (see quot.), probably so called from the shape of the ‘cat’ in the game.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Kit-cat-roll, a bellied roller for land;… going in the furrow, and the roller acting on the sloping surface of the ridge on each side.
