Cat’s-paw
- n. A dupe; a tool; one who, or that which, is used by another as an instrument to a accomplish his purposes.
- n. A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.
- n. A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked.
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.