catte

The catte is a beste {tha} t seeth sharpe, and she byteth sore/and scratcheth right perylously/& is principall ennemye to rattis & myce/

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

Even words that to me feel neutral in English are feminine, if they describe a person or an animal, like the use of "childe" instead of "child", "catte" instead of "cat".

Archive 2009-02-01 x00c5;ka 2009

Even words that to me feel neutral in English are feminine, if they describe a person or an animal, like the use of "childe" instead of "child", "catte" instead of "cat".

Elisabeth Vonarburg: In the Mother's Land x00c5;ka 2009

But yf he haue slaine an catte or a snyte, 18 willingly or vnwillingly: the people ronneth vpon him vppon heapes, and withoute all ordre of Iustice or lawe, in moste miserable wise torment him to death.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

The Rastell here mentioned was doubtless he whom More (_Works_, p. 355.) calls his "brother" (i.e. his sister's husband), joining him with Rochester (i.e. Bp. Fisher), as in this passage, on account of his great zeal in checking the progress of the earlier Reformation; but what is the allusion in the phrase "with his bloudye bishoppe christen catte," &c.,

Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850 Various

I take the word to be _Christencat_; but its two parts are so divided by the position of _Christen_ at the end of one line, and _catte_ at the beginning of the next as to prevent it from being certain that they form one word.

Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849 Various

"Had he" [Sir Thomas More] "not come begging for the clergy from purgatory, with his _supplication of souls_ -- nor the poor soul and proctor been there with his bloody bishop Christen catte, so far conjured into his own Utopia."

Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849 Various

And soch an eye ye catte-fysshe hath when that he ben on dead

A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872

The curteyns let draw þem̅ þe bed round about; se his morter [249] w {i} t {h} wax or p {er} cher {e} [250] þat it go not owt; 968 dryve out dogge [[250a]] and catte, or els geue þem̅ a clovt;

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

* The catty or catte is the Chinese pound, and contains sixteen tael: as the tael contains ten mace: — sixteen catte make twenty pounds

Hau Kiou Choaan : 1761