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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Kit·cat a.
 1. Designating 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.
 2. Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-eight or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Kit·cat, n. A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat.
 Kitcat roll Agric., a roller somewhat in the form of two cones set base to base. [Prov. Eng.]