subs. (old).—See quot.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. A jocular method of hobbling or bothering a troublesome teller of long stories; this is done by contradicting some very immaterial circumstance at the beginning of the narration, the objections to which being settled, others are immediately started to some new particular of like consequence, thus impeding, or rather not suffering him to enter into the main story. KITTLE-PITCHERING is often practised in confederacy.
