ppl. a. Obs. [For catted, f. dial. cat, a lump of clay mixed with straw. See Eng. Dial. Dict., s.v.] Plastered with clay.
1684. I. Mather, Remark. Provid. (1856), 5 b. A violent flash … of lightning, which brake and shivered one of the needles of the katted or wooden chimney.
[1885. E. Eggleston, in Century Mag., XXIX. 874/1. The chimneys were usually built of sticks of wood and well plastered on the inside with clay. These ‘katted’ chimneys, as they were called in New England, often took fire.]
