Definitions for catguts

catguts cat·gut

Spelling: [kat-guht]
IPA: /ˈkætˌgʌt/

Catguts is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in catguts (acgsttu).

Definitions for catguts

noun

  1. a strong cord made by twisting the dried intestines of animals, as sheep, used in stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets, for surgical sutures, etc.
  2. goat's-rue.

Origin of catguts

1590-1600; apparently cat + gut, though allusion is obscure

Examples for catguts

Then he bound her with the catgut, so that she was not able by any means to unloose herself.

Gutta percha and vulcanised india rubber are now applied to many of the purposes formerly exclusively occupied by catgut.

Uncle Billy was off now in earnest, with a squeaking and a shrieking of the catgut.

To this he fastened a long piece of catgut, and carried it through the floor.

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?

The other end of the catgut is fixed to the peg which fits in the hole in the roof.

The perpetual use of bougies, either of catgut or of caoutchouc.

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.

Word Value for catguts
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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