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- noun Plural form of
catling .
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Examples
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I am alone except for the catlings...alone with a vast pile of laundry, unhoovered floors, beds that haven`t been changed since before Christmas, mucky bathroom...well, you get the idea.
Out with the old... Spinningfishwife 2007
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I am alone except for the catlings...alone with a vast pile of laundry, unhoovered floors, beds that haven`t been changed since before Christmas, mucky bathroom...well, you get the idea.
Archive 2007-01-01 Spinningfishwife 2007
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Plus the catlings are gazing at it with extreme resentment.
Archive 2006-12-01 Spinningfishwife 2006
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Plus the catlings are gazing at it with extreme resentment.
Cats:10, Tree:0. Spinningfishwife 2006
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What music will be in him when Hector has knocked out his brains, I know not; but, I am sure, none, unless the fiddler Apollo get his sinews to make catlings on.
Troilus and Cressida 2004
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What music will be in him when Hector has knocked out his brains, I know not; but, I am sure, none, unless the fiddler Apollo get his sinews to make catlings on.
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The eyes of the whole harried world would soon be fixed upon this humane and gentle system, and royal butchers would presently begin to disappear; their subjects would fill the vacancies with catlings from our own royal house; we should become a factory; we should supply the thrones of the world; within forty years all Europe would be governed by cats, and we should furnish the cats.
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The eyes of the whole harried world would soon be fixed upon this humane and gentle system, and royal butchers would presently begin to disappear; their subjects would fill the vacancies with catlings from our own royal house; we should become a factory; we should supply the thrones of the world; within forty years all Europe would be governed by cats, and we should furnish the cats.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 8. Mark Twain 1872
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The eyes of the whole harried world would soon be fixed upon this humane and gentle system, and royal butchers would presently begin to disappear; their subjects would fill the vacancies with catlings from our own royal house; we should become a factory; we should supply the thrones of the world; within forty years all Europe would be governed by cats, and we should furnish the cats.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872
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What music will be in him when Hector has knocked out his brains, I know not; but, I am sure, none, unless the fiddler Apollo get his sinews to make catlings on.
Troilus and Cressida 1601
Gammerstang commented on the word catlings
(pl. noun) - (1) The strings of a violin or lute, they being formerly made of the intestines of a cat and usually called cat-gut.
--William Toone's Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete Words, 1832
(2) What musick there will be in him when Hector has knocked out his brains I know not, but I am sure none, unless the fiddler Apollo get his sinews to make catlings on.
--William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, 1602
January 14, 2018