Definition of "cade"
- adjective
Abandoned by its mother and reared by hand.
- noun
A prickly, bushy Mediterranean juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, whose wood yields a tar.
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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