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Definition of Cade
1. a. Bred by hand; domesticated; petted.
2. v. t. To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.
3. n. A barrel or cask, as of fish.
4. n. A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries.
Definition of Cade
1. Proper noun. (surname A=An English metonymic occupational from=Middle English dot=) for a cooper. ¹
2. Proper noun. (surnames male given name) transferred from the surname. ¹
3. Adjective. (context: of an animal) abandoned by its mother and reared by hand ¹
4. Noun. a prickly, bushy Mediterranean juniper, ''Juniperus oxycedrus'', whose wood yields a tar. ¹
5. Noun. (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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cade
1. a European shrub [n -S]
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