a. [see HAM.] Having hams like those of the cat.
1695. Lond. Gaz., No. 3120/4. Lost or stolen … a brown bay Nag … a little Cat-ham’d. Ibid. (1697), No. 3303/4. Lost … one white Nag … cut Tail’d, cat Hamm’d, fallen at the Crest with the Harness.
1831. Youatt, Horse, i. (1847), 30.
1880. H. C. St. John, Wild Coasts Nipon, viii. 168–9. The Japanese pony is … cat-hammed as a rule, big-headed.
