Catgut is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 59 anagrams from letters in catgut (acgttu).
1590-1600; apparently cat + gut, though allusion is obscure
Uncle Billy was off now in earnest, with a squeaking and a shrieking of the catgut.
The perpetual use of bougies, either of catgut or of caoutchouc.
Then he bound her with the catgut, so that she was not able by any means to unloose herself.
It had four strings of silk or catgut, and a very long neck.
Like the viola da gamba, it has six strings and catgut frets.
A simple hygrometer can be made by a piece of catgut and a straw.
I know that; but did not you hear Mrs. catgut say it was fashionable?
To this he fastened a long piece of catgut, and carried it through the floor.
The other end of the catgut is fixed to the peg which fits in the hole in the roof.
Gutta percha and vulcanised india rubber are now applied to many of the purposes formerly exclusively occupied by catgut.