Middle English Dictionary Entry
cāde n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | cāde n.(1) |
| Etymology | ML cada; cp. CL cadus a jar. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A jar or cask; (b) a cask or barrel used for herring or other fish; a cask full of herring, etc.; also, as a measure of volume or number.
Associated quotations
a
- (1337) Doc.in Rogers Hist.Agric.2555 : 2 cade.
- (1387) Doc.in Rogers Hist.Agric.2428 : 1 cade [ = 12 gallons].
- (1392-3) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52208/22 : Item, in xij cadis pro eue.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)11.331 : Bray hem smal..and when thou wilt, on kadis thre Of wyn a certeyn of this flouris snewe.
- (1454) Will York in Sur.Soc.30172 : A whele, a peyr of cades, a cheyer.
b
- (1339-40) Sacrist R.Ely 288 : Item, in j cade allec. rub. empt. de Waltero de Foxtone.
- (1390-1) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5297/12 : Pro iij cades allecium rubrorum.
- (a1399) Oath Bk.Colchester8 : Et pour v cades j d.
- (1423) Plea & Mem.in Bk.Lond.E.133/104 : He fermeth ob for a cade herynge.
- (1426) Doc.in Morsbach Origurk.15 : And a cade of full-heryng eche ȝeer in tyme of werkyng.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)57 : Cade of herynge [Win: herynge or sperlynge] or oþyr lyke: Cada, lacista, ligatura.
- (?a1450) Doc.in Dugdale Monasticon 1445 : Memorandum, that a barrell off herring shuld contene a thousand herrings, and a cade off herryng six hundreth, six score to the hundreth.
- (1456-8) Doc.in HMC Rep.5 App.521b : For 2 cadys of sprot..14 d.
- (1466) Acc.Howard in RC 57327 : He payd fore a kade of rede herenge.
- (1468-9) Acc.Howard in RC 57531 : xl cades of shotyn heryng, price the cade, iij s. viij d.
- (1474-5) Stonor1.152 : For þe caryage of a barelle of heryng and a cade, xj d.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1228) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.157 : Et focale, stramen, fenum, fimum, lapides, carbones, cadie, chak, id est, coopertura domorum, turves, et omnia talia consimilia non debent dare teoloneum.
Note: ?New form (if this is the word): ?Pl. cadie.
Note: ?Quot. belongs to sense 1.(a).--per MLL