[f. prec. sb.]
Naut. a. Of the wind: To ruffle slightly and in part the surface of water. b. To make a catspaw in the bight of a rope; to join by a cat’s-paw.
1794. Rigging & Seamanship, I. 217. A luff-tackle is cats-pawed to the other end of the sheet.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., ix. (1854), 69. The surface of the sea at this time was cat’s-pawed as far as could be seen.
