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Cade vs Cads - What's the difference?

cade | cads |

As nouns the difference between cade and cads

is that cade is a prickly, bushy Mediterranean juniper, species: Juniperus oxycedrus, whose wood yields a tar while cads is plural of cad.

As a proper noun Cade

is {{surname|A=An|English metonymic occupational|from=occupations}} for a cooper.

As an adjective cade

is abandoned by its mother and reared by hand.

As a verb cade

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

cade

English

Alternative forms

* rare: Caide, Kade, Kayde

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • for a cooper.
  • * ,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;
  • transferred from the surname.
  • * 1936 , 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.

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    cads

    English

    Noun

    (head)

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