Kit"cat` (?), a. 1.
Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele
belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook,
who served the club with mutton pies.
2. Designating a canvas used for portraits of
a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right 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"cat`, n. 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.]