one old cat

[ wuhn-uh kat ]
/ ˈwʌn ə ˌkæt /

noun Games.

a form of baseball in which there is a home plate and one other base, and in which a player remains at bat and scores runs by hitting the ball and running to the base and back without being put out.
Also one o' cat, one-a-cat.

Origin of one old cat

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Words nearby one old cat

one jump ahead, one man's meat is another man's poison, one of a kind, one of these days, one of those days, one old cat, one on one, one on, that's, one picture is worth a thousand words, one rotten (or bad) apple spoils the barrel, one that loved not wisely but too well

Example sentences from the Web for one old cat

  • In a game of "one-old-cat," the side on which I played was defeated.

    A Mind That Found Itself |Clifford Whittingham Beers

  • There were two varieties of the game, the first called "one-old-cat," or one-cornered-cat, and the other "two-old-cat."

    Base-Ball |John M. Ward

  • In one-old-cat there were a batter, pitcher, catcher, and fielders.

    Base-Ball |John M. Ward