Definition of "tipcat" []

• An old game in which a small piece of wood, pointed at both ends, called a "cat", is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, to make it travel through the air as far as possible. (noun)
• The wooden stick used in this game. (noun)

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• "But the next minute flinging away dull care, he inquired briskly: “Can you play tipcat, Aunt Mary?”"
• "The four chief sins of which he was guilty were dancing, ringing the bells of the parish church, playing at tipcat and reading the history of Sir Bevis of Southampton."
• "In the middle of a game at tipcat he paused, and stood staring wildly upwards with his stick in his hand."