cade

Meanings

Adjective

• abandoned by its mother and reared by hand

Verb

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

Noun

• An animal brought up or nourished by hand.
• Juniperus oxycedrus (western prickly juniper), whose wood yields a tar.
• A cask or barrel.

Origin

• From Middle English cade, kad, kod, ultimately of Unknown origin.
• Borrowed from Middle French cade or Old Occitan cade, from Latin catanum.
• Borrowed from Middle French cade ("barrel"), from Latin cadus ("bottle, jar").