a small bit (H.S.D.), a basket for trouts (M`A. for Islands), basket (Sh.), a place to hold barley in (M`L.). For the first sense, cf. Welsh cat, a piece, Scottish cat, a rag. In Irish Latin the trout was called catus (Giraldus).
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language.
Alexander Gairm Publications.
1982.