cat's-foot
Britishnoun
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But–but it’s a cat’s-foot climb down–there!” breaking off breathlessly, as if feeling were making a cat’s-paw of him.
From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Hornibrook, Isabel Katherine
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