dial. A small poor potato.
1840. Hood, Up the Rhine, 198. Buy inferior weak chats, and rye bread. Ibid., xviii. Potatoes small and waxy, such as we should call chats in England.
1875. Lanc. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Chat (Mid. and E. Lanc.), a small potato.
1877. E. Peacock, N.-W. Linc. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Chats, small and diseased potatoes, unfit for market.
