Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Kitcat \Kit"cat`\, a.
1. Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele
belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry
cook, who served the club with mutton pies.
2. Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar
size, viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by
thirty-six; -- so called because that size was adopted by
Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the
members of the Kitcat Club. --Fairholt.
Kitcat \Kit"cat`\, n.
A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood,
called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases;
tipcat. --Cotton.
{Kitcat roll} (Agric.), a roller somewhat in the form of two
cones set base to base. [Prov. Eng.]