LekhoriLekhoriA little cat; a kitten.
For never cat nor catling I shall find, / But mew shall they in Pluto's palace blind.
catgut; a catgut string
but, I am sure, none, unless the fiddler Apollo get his sinews to make catlings on.
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.
A surname.
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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