Meaning & use
cade
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reared by hand after being abandoned by its mother, typically used of a young farm animal such as a lamb
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The shepherd bottle-fed the cade lamb every morning until it was strong enough to join the flock.
Orphaned cade calves are often kept near the farmhouse so they can be fed more easily.
A note on using this word
This old dialectal English word survives mainly in farming and rural British speech, almost always paired with 'lamb' as in 'cade lamb'.
Words with a similar meaning
hand-rearedpet
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