Etymology

From cat +‎ stickCategory:English compound terms#CATSTICK.

Noun

catstick (usually uncountable, plural catsticks)Category:English lemmas#CATSTICKCategory:English nouns#CATSTICKCategory:English uncountable nouns#CATSTICKCategory:English countable nouns#CATSTICKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CATSTICKCategory:Pages with entries#CATSTICKCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CATSTICK (gamesCategory:en:Games#CATSTICK)

1. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATSTICK) A stick or club used in the game of tipcat.
   • 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?

     Category:English terms with quotations#CATSTICK

2. (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#CATSTICK) The game of tipcat.

Further reading

• “catstick”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• tacticks