Usually means: Material from sheep intestines, strings.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. catgut: Merriam-Webster
  2. catgut: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catgut: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. catgut: Collins English Dictionary
  5. catgut: Vocabulary.com
  6. Catgut, catgut: Wordnik
  7. catgut: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. catgut: Wiktionary
  9. catgut: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. catgut: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. catgut: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. catgut: Dictionary.com
  13. catgut: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Catgut (horse), Catgut: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Catgut: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. catgut: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. catgut: Rhymezone
  18. Catgut: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. Catgut: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. Catgut: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. catgut: FreeDictionary.org
  22. catgut: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. catgut: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. catgut: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catgut: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. catgut: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. catgut: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. catgut, catgut: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. CatGut: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, especially of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, racquets, sutures etc.
noun:  (uncountable) The material from which such cords are made.
noun:  (uncountable) A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.
noun:  (uncountable) Tephrosia virginiana (goat's rue, devil's shoestring).

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