cade

• IPA^(key): /keɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

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

cade (not comparable)

1. (of an animal) abandoned by its mother and reared by hand

cade (third-person singular simple present cades, present participle cading, simple past and past participle caded)

1. To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.

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cade (plural cades)

1. An animal brought up or nourished by hand.

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

cade (plural cades)

1. western prickly juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, whose wood yields a tar.

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

cade (plural cades)

1. (archaic) A cask or barrel.

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

• Used in the British Book of Rates for a determinate number of some sort of fish.

This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.

• CEDA, aced, dace, deca-, ecad

cade

1. present of cader
2. imperative of cader

cade

1. third-person singular present of cadere

• ceda
• deca

cade

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cadō