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Noun Concept
Categories: English inventions, Whips, Articles with permanently dead external links, 17th-century neologisms, Corporal punishments
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cat-o'-nine-tails  cat  cat o' nine tails  Boy's cat  Boy's pussy
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A whip with nine knotted cords WordNet 3.0
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A whip with nine knotted cords WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
The cat o' nine tails, commonly shortened to the cat, is a type of multi-tailed whip or flail. Wikipedia
Type of multi-tailed whipping device. Wikipedia Disambiguation
A nine-tailed whip Wikipedia Disambiguation
Type of whip Wikidata
(nautical) a whip having nine knotted cords, formerly used for flogging as naval punishment. OmegaWiki
A whip having nine, often knotted, whipcords, formerly used for flogging as naval punishment. Wiktionary
Whip. Wiktionary (translation)
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British sailors feared the cat WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
IS A
whip
DERIVATION
cat
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Sytin Military Encyclopedia
USE
torture
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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cat-o'-nine-tails, cat
Wikipedia
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cat o' nine tails
Wikidata
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cat o' nine tails
Wiktionary
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cat-o'-nine-tails
OmegaWiki
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cat o' nine tails
Wikipedia Redirections
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Boy's cat, Boy's pussy, Boys cat, cat-o'-nine-tails, cat-o-nine-tails, cat-o-nine tails, Cat-of-nine-tails, Cat 'o Nine Tails, Cat O' Nine Tails, Cat o' Nine Tails, cat o'nine tails, Cat o nine, Cat o nine tails, cat of nine tails, Cat o’nine tails, gunner's daughter, Naval Cat o' nine tails, Not enough room to swing a cat, Reduced cat, The cat's out of the bag
Wikidata Alias
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the cat

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