[Fictionary] Cathead: Definitions

[Matthew Fowles Kulukundis]

All~

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cathead - n. A negatively charged wire formerly used in television sets
that had tubes. Often, a series of these wires.

cathead - n. [colloquial from Central Appalachia] Cattail root, esp. raw in
a salad.

cathead - n. A litter box on a ship used by the ship's cat.

cathead - n. Popup or popunder clickbait.

cathead - n. [Old Irish, from Latin cathedra] The office of a bishop in
early Scotland and Ireland.

cathead - n. A horizontal beam extending from each side of a ship's bow,
used for raising and carrying an anchor.

cathead - n. A landform that is a peninsula at low tide and an island at
high tide.

cathead - n. [Irish, pronounced 'chaw'] the head of a cat

cathead - n. The opposite of a cattail.

cathead - adj. Used to describe a path which has a single perpendicular
turn.

cathead - n. A used baseball that is no longer spherical.

cathead - n. [English naval slang] Scarring formed after flogging.

cathead - v. To build an earthen fortification.

Cheers,
Matt
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