plural cat's-paws
1
: a light air that ruffles the surface of the water in irregular patches during a calm
2
[from the fable of the monkey that used a cat's paw to draw chestnuts from the fire]
: one used by another as a tool : dupe
the … government became the cat's-paw for foreign powers—
D. J. Boorstin
3
: a hitch knot formed with two eyes for attaching a line to a hook see knot illustration
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