{i} brown or grey cat with striped markings; domestic female cat; (Textile) shiny taffeta that has a striped pattern, silk having a watered pattern; old maid, unmarried woman beyond the usual age of marriage, spinster; irritating woman gossiper; cement made of lime and oyster shells and sand used as a building material (used along the South Atlantic coast in the USA)
To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc