cat-stick

cat-stick (countable and uncountable, plural cat-sticks)

1. Alternative spelling of catstick.
   • c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:

     You, ſirrha; Sheepes-head, / VVith a face cut on a cat-ſticke, Doe you heare?

• tacticks