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cat-walk

cat-walk is the alternative form of catwalk.

Meaning of catwalk

Noun

catwalk (plural catwalks)

  1. An elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft from the bridge of a merchant vessel.
    Synonyms:
    walkaway
  2. Any similar elevated walkway.
    • The lengthening [of the District Line platforms] is being done so that passengers will no longer have to use the narrow catwalks to enter and leave the front and rear portions of eight-car trains.1963 June, “News and Comment: Victoria line engineering works”, in Modern Railways, page 370
  3. A narrow elevated stage on which models parade.
    Synonyms:
    runway
  4. (broadly) The business of making clothes for fashion shows.

Forms of cat-walk

pluralcat-walks

Questions about cat-walk

What is cat-walk the alternative form of?
Cat-walk is the alternative form of catwalk.

Words near cat-walk in the dictionary

  1. cat-sticks
  2. cat-tail sedge
  3. cat-tail sedges
  4. cat-trap
  5. cat-traps
  6. cat-walk
  7. cat-walks
  8. cat-witted
  9. cata-
  10. Cataban
  11. Catabaptism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cat-walk (page history and authors); catwalk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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