"cat-head" = large apple (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Google Books has "cat head biscuit" from 1939 in American Speech.  Dunno
if it's in DARE, but I can't find it in OED.



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> 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
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> Neither OED nor DARE has cat-head is this sense.
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> George A. Thompson
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> Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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