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cade

UK/keɪd/ US/ˈkeɪd/ uncommon archaic

adjective

1.

(of a young animal) abandoned by its mother and raised by hand

  • “a cade calf”
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Origin

* 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”).

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