KIT, noun A large bottle. 1. A small fiddle. 2. A kind of fish-tub, and a milk-pail. [I know not that this word is used in America.] KIT'-CAT, noun A term applied to a club in London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies; applied also to a portrait three fourths less than a half length, placed in the club-room.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI