"cat-head" = large apple

victor steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Sep 14 23:54:18 UTC 2010


Not antedating, but I found a 1844 Boston-published dictionary in GB
that lists "apple" under "cat-head".

http://goo.gl/4sDL

p. 50 if you can't find it alphabetically ;-)

GT's original find was 1832.

VS-)

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