A noisy fight or brawl; a quarrel or loud dispute between people.
Origin uncertain; possibly a dialectal or obsolete English word combining 'cater' (to provide or manage) with 'brawl' (a noisy fight), or from a similar root.
This wonderfully descriptive word captures something specific—not just any fight, but the kind of loud, messy brawl that erupts at crowded gatherings, exactly the kind tavern keepers in medieval England had to deal with!
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