tipcatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• tip-cat

語源

From tip +‎ cat.

発音

名詞

tipcat (countable and uncountable, plural tipcats)

1. (uncountable) An old game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, to make it travel through the air as far as possible.
   • 1838, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome:

     In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand.

2. (countable) The wooden piece used in this game.

   Synonym: cat

関連する語

• catstick

参考

• gilli-danda

参照

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