A Chinese commercial weight of 18 ozs. English. Tea is packed in one or two or more catty boxes, hence most likely our word tea-caddy.
·noun An East Indian Weight of 1 1/3 pounds. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Diagonally. In his Craven Glossary, Mr. Carr gives the word cater corner'd. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.