or katey, subs. (old cant).—1.  A picklock: cf. BETTY and JENNY.

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. KATE. ’Tis a Rum KATE, that is a Clever Picklock.

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  1725.  A New Canting Dictionary, s.v.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. KATE.

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  1859.  G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v. KATEY.

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  2.  (old).—A wanton. Dutch, Kat.—MATSELL (1859). See KITTY.

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  1721.  RAMSAY, Lucky Spence’s Last Advice, in Wks. (1848), i. 301.

        Roun’d in his lug, that there was a
Poor country KATE,
As halesome as the wall of Spa,
But unka blate.

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