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Cade vs Gade - What's the difference?

cade | gade |

As nouns the difference between cade and gade

is that cade is a prickly, bushy Mediterranean juniper, species: Juniperus oxycedrus, whose wood yields a tar while gade is any of various fish of the cod family found in British waters; especially those of the genera Gadus and genus: Motella.

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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    gade

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various fish of the cod family found in British waters; especially those of the genera Gadus and .
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete, Moray Firth) A pike.
  • Synonyms

    * (pike) gead (Webster 1913)

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