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Cade

//keɪd// adj, name, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    abandoned by its mother and reared by hand not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An English metonymic surname originating as an occupation for a cooper.

    "Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge; / The citizens fly and forsake their houses; / The rascal people, thirsting after prey, / Join with the traitor;"

  2. 2
    A male given name transferred from the surname.

    "They're fine lads, but if it's Cade Calvert you're setting your cap after, why, 'tis the same with me."

Noun
  1. 1
    An animal brought up or nourished by hand.

    "Then on the verdrous Bank, where Spices rose, Rowl on the balmy Grass, or smiling play With her young Cade, her caded Lamb with Smiles Answer'd her Love, and lickt her dainty hand."

  2. 2
    Juniperus oxycedrus (western prickly juniper), whose wood yields a tar.
  3. 3
    A cask or barrel. archaic

    "A cade of herrings was a vessel containing 500 herrings, while a cade of sprats contained 1,000."

Verb
  1. 1
    To make a pet of; to coddle, pamper, or spoil.

    "Delicacies are thrown away upon a growing youth; they are quite out of place; his appetite does not require pampering, and cading, and coaxing; moreover, a youth who is made to think a great deal of his stomach is sure to grow up an epicure!"

Etymology

Etymology 1

* As an English surname, from an old personal name Cada, from a Germanic root meaning "lump, swelling" and perhaps related to the next sense. * Also as an English occupational surname for a cooper, from Old French cade (“barrel, cask”), from Latin cadus. * Also as an English surname, from the noun cade (sense 1) (“domestic animal”). * As a French surname, spelling variant of Cadé, from cade (“juniper”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English cade, kad, kod, ultimately of unknown origin.

Etymology 3

From Middle English cade, kad, kod, ultimately of unknown origin.

Etymology 4

From Middle English cade, kad, kod, ultimately of unknown origin.

Etymology 5

Borrowed from Middle French cade, from Old Occitan cade, from Latin catanum.

Etymology 6

Borrowed from Middle French cade (“barrel”), from Latin cadus (“bottle, jar”).

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