English

Alternative forms

• rare: Caide, Kade, Kayde

Proper noun

Cade

1. An English metonymic occupational surname​ for a cooper.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV,Scene IV:

     Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge; / The citizens fly and forsake their houses; / The rascal people, thirsting after prey, / Join with the traitor;

2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   • 1936 Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind, Read Books 2008, ISBN 1443719587, page 26:

     They're fine lads, but if it's Cade Calvert you're setting your cap after, why, 'tis the same with me.

Anagrams

• aced
• CEDA
• dace

English

Adjective

cade ‎(not comparable)

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

Etymology 2

Noun

cade ‎(plural cades)

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

Etymology 3

Noun

cade ‎(plural cades)

1. (archaic) A cask or barrel, used in the British Book of Rates for a determinate number of some sort of fish.

   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

Interlingua

Verb

cade

1. present of cader
2. imperative of cader

Italian

Verb

cade

1. third-person singular present of cadere

Anagrams

• ceda
• deca

Latin

Verb

cade

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cadō