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Definition of Cat sleep

1. Noun. Sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cat Sleep

Literary usage of Cat sleep

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Nest Hunters, Or, Adventures in the Indian Archipelago by William Dalton, C. P. Nicholls (1863)
"pose, I must have had what is called a cat's sleep. By the way, why a cat's sleep should be a synonym for wakefulness, I could never understand: for since ..."

2. The New Sporting Magazine (1832)
"Why is the term " cat's sleep " applied to a false appearance of sleep ? I have reason to believe no animals sleep So sound as cats, unless it be those who ..."

3. A Fourth Reader by Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks (1911)
"So, instead of letting the cat sleep by the fire, she shut her up in the chilly coal-cellar, locked the door, put the key in her pocket and went off to bed, ..."

4. Animal and Plant Lore: Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking by Fanny Dickerson Bergen (1899)
"If a cat sleep with the back of her head on the floor, rain is coming. Eastern Kansas. 535. When cattle drink salt water, it foretells a rain. ..."

5. The Christian Examiner (1847)
"... and vigilance be put at least into a cat-sleep ; and if an extinguisher is still put upon the voice that peeps, and a stopper into the ear chat listens, ..."

6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"Dorm, sb. a kind of half sleep or cat sleep. A woman speaking of her sick child, said, ' Last neet he fell into a dorm, and then he wakken'd, ..."

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