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Last week, he was catted by the Association of German Friends of Cats, and by Herr Victor Fraenkl, chairman of the German League for Animal Rights, one of the Association's principal spokesmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
At daylight next morning we catted the anchors, made all sail, and were the next day reposing like a swan in a lake at Black River.
From A Sailor of King George by Bevan, A. Beckford
The rope rove for the cat-purchase, by which the anchor is raised to the cat-head or catted.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
And then word came from the captain, demanding to know what the delay was about in getting the anchor catted, so that the Georgetown might proceed.
From Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam by Webster, Frank V.
Hardly had the little transport Vectis catted her anchor when the Republic of Natalia was proclaimed and its flag run up on the staff of the forsaken British Camp on Durban Bay.
From A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans by
