"cat-head" = large apple

[George Thompson]

Four apples, called cat-head were exhibited last week to the editor of the Portland Advertiser weighing a pound each.
Morning Courier & New-York Enquirer, October 17, 1832, p. 2, col. 3

Neither OED nor DARE has cat-head is this sense.

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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