Assertion: cat's cord | /r/ObjectUse | used at sea
Facets:
value: formerly
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Proverbial expression recorded from the mid 16th century.cat o' nine tails a rope whip with nine knotted cords, formerly used (especially at sea) to flog offenders.cat's cradle a child's game in which a loop of string is put around and between the fingers and complex patterns are formed.cat's paw a person who is used by another, typically to carry out an unpleasant or dangerous task, and originally with allusion to the fable of a monkey which asked a cat to extract its roasted chestnuts from the fire.the cat, the rat, and Lovell our dog, rule all England under the hog hostile rhyme describing the rule of Richard III, whose personal emblem was a White Boar, and his three favourites, William Catesby (‘the cat’), Richard Ratcliffe (‘the rat’), and Lord Lovell, whose crest was a dog; the rhyme is recorded from the early 16th century in Robert Fabyan's, and is attributed to the English landowner and conspirator against Richard, William Collingbourne