subs. (old).—The Bridewell or prison at Durham: hence a prison or gaol generally. [From KIDCOTE (q.v.).]
1827–8. HONE, The Table Book. He would put him in the KITTY for an impostor.
2. In pl. (old).—Effects; furniture; stock-in-trade; MARBLES (q.v.). TO SEIZE ONE’S KITTYS = to take one’s effects.—Lexicon Balatronicum (1811).
3. (cards’).—See quot.
1892. Daily Chronicle, 5 March, p. 9, col. 2. Two officers going into the bar parlour on Feb. 20 found five or six men playing ‘Nap,’ with a KITTY for drinks, KITTY being the pool and the payment to it of a half-penny.
4. In pl. (military).—The Scots’ Guards.
