catsfoot

Meanings

noun

Synonym of cat's-paw: a foot of a cat; (figurative, obsolete) a person used unwittingly or through trickery by another.
...like the Monkey, that took the Cat's Foot to pull the Chesnut out of the Fire...
c. 1661, Argyle's Last Will in The Harleian Miscellany, Vol. VIII, p. 30
Synonyms: cat's-paw
Synonym of ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea).
It is commonly called […] in English ground Iuie, Alehoofe, Gill creepe by ground, Tunehoofe, and Cats foote.
1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Ground Iuie, or Alefoot”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book II, page 705
Synonyms: ground ivy
Synonym of mountain cudweed (Antennaria dioica).
...an Infusion made with the Heads of White Poppies, Cat's-foot, Colt's-foot, and Maiden-hair.
1739, Henri François Le Dran, translated by John Sparrow, Observations in Surgery, page 119
Synonyms: mountain cudweed

nounSynonym of cat's-paw: a foot of a cat; (figurative, obsolete) a person used unwittingly or through trickery by another.

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nounSynonym of ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea).

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nounSynonym of mountain cudweed (Antennaria dioica).

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mountain cudweed

Also see

From cat's + foot. For its obsolete figurative sense, see cat's-paw.

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