cade

See also -cade, Cade, and cadê

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪd

Adjective

cade

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

Verb

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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Noun

cade (plural cades)

1. a prickly, bushy Mediterranean juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, whose wood yields a tar.
2. (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.

References

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

Anagrams

• aced
• CEDA
• dace

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Interlingua

Verb

cade

1. present of cader
2. imperative of cader

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Italian

Verb form

cade

1. third-person singular present tense of cadere

Anagrams

• ceda
• deca

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Latin

Verb

cade

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cadō  "fall thou"