catgut

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"Here's a young chap who is a first-rate hand with the catgut, and if any of you can tell him that he is welcome in his own lingo, I wish you would, mates," said Bruff.

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  1. noun A tough thin cord made from the treated and stretched intestines of certain animals, especially sheep, and used for stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets and for surgical ligatures.

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  • Some folks' booels are that made o' catgut, that they canna stir without chirruping and screeking However, aestro percitus , I wrote on; and in about two years and a half had got together “Songs of the Highways” enough to fill a small octavo volume, the circumstances of whose birth shall be given hereafter. —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
  • Most catgut is made from the intestines of sheep and hogs.
  • They may be called catgut, but they are actually made from sheep intestines.
  • The same "catgut" is used for medical sutures in surgery and strings for tennis rackets.
  • When catgut is used, it is better to pass the unarmed needle till the eye is visible, then thread and withdraw it, thus pulling the catgut through 5. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
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  1. apparently from cat + gut (cf. equivalent catling, 2); but, as catgut does not seem ever to have been prepared from cats' intes tines, the word is supposed to stand for *kitgut (cf. equivalent kitstring), by confusion of kit, a little cat, with kit, a fiddle.
 

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