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A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.

An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.

Catgut; a catgut string. [R.] Shak.

One of the catgut strings of a fiddle.

but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers.

ne of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.

the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games. Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket. Bancroft.…

ed because (in order to render it more resonant) it has stretched across its lower head a catgut string or strings.

re Etym: [It., viol of love: cf. F. viole d'amour], a viol, larger than the viola, having catgut strings upon, and brass or steel wires under, the keyboard. These, sounding sympathetically with the strings, yield a peculiarly soft and silvery sound. It is now seldom used.