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Cadge   Listen
verb
Cadge  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. cadged; pres. part. cadging)  
1.
To carry, as a burden. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)
2.
To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc. (Prov.)
3.
To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. (Prov. or Slang, Eng.)


noun
Cadge  n.  (Hawking) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.





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"Cadge" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ursula girl gets a room in the town for me. I have coached two or three of them at little reading parties. It gets one out of town in autumn: Bloomsbury in August is not very fresh. And at Oxford one can "tout," or "cadge," for a little work. But there are so many ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang
... all at once the mutter merged into a vindictive hiss: "Him with his airs and graces, his fine clothes and greasy manners, putting on the lah-de-dah over them that's stood by him when he hadn't a red and was glad to cadge drinks off spiggoties in hells like ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance
... which I gave some illusion of dignity. After a disappointed pause he went on: "You'd better know something about these people. Beasts, every one of 'em, young or old, some beastly common beasts, but all beastly rich, except those that are beastly poor, and on the make—to marry their daughters, or cadge for smart friends. Lark was bidding for swells, and got snobs. Thinks his silly title will carry weight in society as it does in the city. 'Lark Pie,' we're called, I hear. I call us a 'Pretty Kettle of Fish!' The girls are the worst of the caboodle, ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson
... the door of a long covered shed commonly called the "mews," and shortly appeared again with four hooded hawks—two falcons, and two males or tiercel-gentles—placed on a wooden frame or cadge. These he handed to a stout yokel to carry, and the whole party sallied forth towards the downs. The squire and the parson were mounted on their palfreys, the rest of the ...
— A Cotswold Village • J. Arthur Gibbs


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