vbl. sb. Obs. Also 7 cating, cateing. [as if f. vb. cat.] Caterwauling; going after the opposite sex (contemptuously).
1681. Colvil, Whig’s Suppl. (1695), 116. The language us’d by Catts, When in the Night they go a Cating.
c. 1684. Elegy Lady Stair, in Law, Mem. (1818), 228 (Jam.). A strange unluckie fate … Which sent her [a cat] thus a cateing into hell.
1725. New Cant. Dict., Catting, Whoring.
¶ Also in other senses of CAT v., q.v.
