catling

A little cat; a kitten.

For never cat nor catling I shall find, / But mew shall they in Pluto's palace blind.

Abel was a lover of the worst type: when he was with a catling he hardly ever laughed . If the catling came back again, he never did.

catgut; a catgut string

but, I am sure, none, unless the fiddler Apollo get his sinews to make catlings on.

If you have a two-string lute, where one string is made with iron and the other with catling (made of sheep guts), and you tune it so that it produces the best unison, you shall lose it as soon as you move the keys, while looking for a new common chord. In practical terms, if an iron string and a catling string with the same length vibrate in unison , this does not mean they will do the same if you cut them by half .

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.

The operator […] grasping the soft parts immediately below, raises them so as to facilitate the passage of a double-edged knife or catling across the face of the bones […]

A surname.