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catheading

catheading is the present participle and gerund of cathead.

Meaning of cathead

Verb

cathead (third-person singular simple present catheads, present participle catheading, simple past and past participle catheaded)

  1. (transitive) Synonym of cat (“to hoist (an anchor) so that it hangs at the cathead (noun sense 1.1)”)
    • [T]he whole canvass of the ship was loosed, and with the greatest rapidity possible, everything was sheeted home and hoisted up, the anchor tripped and catheaded, and the ship under headway.1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., chapter XXV, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC, page 270
    Synonyms:
    cat

See all 5 meanings of cathead

Forms of catheading

alternative formcat-heading

Questions about catheading

What is catheading the present participle and gerund of?
Catheading is the present participle and gerund of cathead.

Words near catheading in the dictionary

  1. Cathcarts
  2. cathead
  3. cathead biscuit
  4. cathead biscuits
  5. catheaded
  6. catheading
  7. catheads
  8. cathecholamine
  9. cathecolaminergic
  10. cathect
  11. cathected

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catheading (page history and authors); cathead (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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