n. A kind of float or raft used by various peoples.n. Any craft with twin hulls, the inner faces of which are parallel to each other from stem to stern, and which is propelled either by sail or by steam. Sometimes shortened to cat.n. A quarrelsome woman; a vixen; a scold: a humorous or arbitrary use, with allusion to cat or catamount. See cat, 4.n. In lumbering, a small raft carrying a windlass and grapple, used to recover sunken logs.