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Word: cade (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • of an animal abandoned by its mother and reared by hand

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Noun:

  • a prickly, bushy Mediterranean juniper, ''Juniperus oxycedrus'', whose wood yields a tar.
  • archaic A cask or barrel, used in the British ''Book of Rates'' for a determinate number of some sort of fish. For example, a cade of herrings was a vessel containing 500 herrings, while a cade of sprats contained 1,000.

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Proper noun:

  • male|from=surnames transferred from the surname.
  • A=An|English from=Middle English|dot= for a [[cooper.

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