Definify.com
Webster 1913 Edition
Kitcat
Kit′catˊ
,Adj.
1.
Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; – so called from , a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies.
Christopher Cat
2.
Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-eight or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; – so called because that size was adopted by
Sir Godfrey Kneller
for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcat
Club. Fairholt.
Kit′catˊ
,Noun.
A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat.
Cotton.
Kitcat roll
(Agric.)
, a roller somewhat in the form of two cones set base to base.
[Prov. Eng.]