- Male cat - Metal wedge - A male cat; a tomcat. - To act like a cat. - A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a
machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them
together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted
by means of a wedge, key, or screw. - To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a
gib, or gibs. - To balk. See Jib, v. i.
- Thin metal wedge - Thin packing strip - Thin slip of metal - A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground,
and clear it of weeds. - A thin piece of metal placed between two parts to make a fit.
- Flit (about) - Flit about – otherwise, brigade would be left with cheese - Gallivant - Gallivant (about) - Gallivant about dementedly at first - Gallivant into Brigadoon - Gathered there. Left to wander aimlessly
- Type of wedge - Alt. of Cottar - A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for
fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into
an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United
States a cotter is commonly called a key. - A toggle. - To fasten with a cotter.