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Cade

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Cade  (kd), Jack Died 1450.
English rebel who led an unsuccessful rebellion against Henry VI (1450).
cade  (kd)
adj.
Left by its mother and reared by hand: a cade calf.
n.
A bushy juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean region that is used in horticulture and whose wood yields juniper tar. Also called prickly juniper.
[Middle English, pet lamb.]
Cade a cask or barrel containing a quantity of 720 herrings, later 500 herrings; a quantity of 1000 sprats.
Examples: cade of herrings, 1440; of sprats, 1704.


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The thing that would have best suited the circus side of my nature would have been to resign the Boss-ship and get up an insurrection and turn it into a revolution; but I knew that the Jack Cade or the Wat Tyler who tries such a thing without first educating his materials up to revolution grade is almost absolutely certain to get left.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
Eh, she'd fine work wi' ye, I'll warrant, bringin' ye up from a babby, an' her a lone woman--it's ill bringin' up a cade lamb.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
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