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adj
abandoned by its mother and reared by hand
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Usage: not-comparable
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name
An English metonymic surname originating as an occupation for a cooper.
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name
A male given name transferred from the surname.
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noun
An animal brought up or nourished by hand.
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noun
Juniperus oxycedrus (western prickly juniper), whose wood yields a tar.
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noun
A cask or barrel.
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Usage: archaic
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verb
To make a pet of; to coddle, pamper, or spoil.
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History
From Middle English cade, kad, kod, ultimately of unknown origin.
* As an English surname, from an old personal name Cada, from a Germanic root meaning "lump, swelling" and perhaps related to the next sense. * Also as an English occupational surname for a cooper, from Old French cade (“barrel, cask”), from Latin cadus. * Also as an English surname, from the noun cade (sense 1) (“domestic animal”). * As a French surname, spelling variant of Cadé, from cade (“juniper”).
Borrowed from Middle French cade, from Old Occitan cade, from Latin catanum.
Borrowed from Middle French cade (“barrel”), from Latin cadus (“bottle, jar”).
Across languages
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