Catgut: Definition and part of speech

Catgut

  1. n. A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.
  2. n. A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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