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Lade vs Cade - What's the difference?

lade | cade |

As verbs the difference between lade and cade

is that lade is to fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment) while cade is to bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.

As nouns the difference between lade and cade

is that lade is the mouth of a river while cade is a prickly, bushy Mediterranean juniper, species: Juniperus oxycedrus, whose wood yields a tar.

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.

lade

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), akin to (etyl) ).

Verb

  • To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
  • * Bible, Genesis xlii. 26
  • And they laded their asses with the corn.
  • To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
  • To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
  • to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern
  • * Shakespeare
  • And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, / Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way.
  • To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
  • (nautical) To admit water by leakage.
  • Etymology 2

    English dialect, a ditch or drain. Compare (lode), (lead) to conduct.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) The mouth of a river.
  • (Bishop Gibson)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
  • (Scottish) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
  • (Webster 1913)

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    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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