skittered

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From 1929 to 1934 she kittened twice, presaging two mining stock booms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Were some one to tell you that your neighbour's cat kittened yesterday, you would say the information was valueless.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert

They were bundles of live springs, twisting out of her paws, dancing over her back, leaping, kicking, tumbling as she had never seen a kitten do in all her richly kittened experience.

From Roof and Meadow by Sharp, Dallas Lore

My friend had a little helpless leveret brought to him, which the servants fed with milk in a spoon, and about the same time his cat kittened and the young were dispatched and buried.

From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert

The cook, to whom the proposal was made, suggested that this would be a difficult undertaking; but as the cat had lately kittened, some of the puppies might be given to her to bring up.

From Stories of Animal Sagacity by Weir, Harrison