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Cattegat

British  
/ ˈkætɪˌɡæt /

noun

  1. a former spelling of Kattegat

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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As the whole party filed down the back stairs, Katie was trying amidst her merriment to help wringing-wet Peggy out of her queer bath, and all but Cattegat had something to laugh at.

From Harper's Young People, June 8, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Cattegat will now surely catch that ferocious rat in the last room, thought every one.

From Harper's Young People, June 8, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Læsö is a small island in the Cattegat, the inhabitants of which are mainly farmers and fishermen, and the old women wear a particular costume for Sunday, which is called the "church costume."

From Denmark by M. Pearson Thomson

The Cattegat is divided from the Baltic by the Danish islands, between the east coast of the Cimbric peninsula in the neighbourhood of the German frontier and south-western Sweden.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

Now Audun had made up his mind to give the bear to Sweyn, the king of Denmark; and so, leaving Thorir, he made his way south to the Cattegat.

From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell

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