Cat block

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(Naut.)

a heavy iron-strapped block with a large hook, part of the tackle used in drawing an anchor up to the cathead.

- Coleridge.

See also: cat

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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