catling

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A little cat; a kitten. archaic
    — For never cat nor catling I shall find, / But mew shall they in Pluto's palace blind.
  2. catgut; a catgut string
    — but, I am sure, none, unless the fiddler Apollo get his sinews to make catlings on.
  3. A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.
    — the amputation is competed by passing the catling between the separated bones, dividng the flexor tendons, &c., and forming a flap of about equal size to the superior from the integument on the sole of the foot.

词形变化

catlings plural

词汇关系

相关词
kitling

词源

From cat + -ling. Compare kitling, catkin. According to the OED, the sense of a surgical knife may be an independent word.
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