cat face
n.— «You may hear that…much of the timber is “cat-faced”…that “cat face” is a scar made by a fire in a tree.» —“Their Speech is Vivid” Washington Post Mar. 26, 1905. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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