CADE, adjective Tame; bred by hand; domesticated; as a cade lamb. CADE, verb transitive To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to tame. CADE, noun A barrel or cask. A cade of herrings is the quantity of five hundred; of sprats, a thousand.
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