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▪ I. cadge, n.1 (kædʒ) [App. a variant of cage perh. confused with cadge v. to carry about; but it does not appear what is the source of the earliest quotation, which the later merely follow.] 1. Falconry. (See quots.)1615 Latham Falconry (1633) Wds. of Art expl., Cadge, is taken for that on which F...
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cadge
cadge/kædʒ; kædʒ/ v[I, Ipr, Tn, Tn.pr]~ (sth) (from sb) (sometimes derog 有时作贬义) get or try to get (sth) (from sb) by asking, often unreasonably (向某人)索要或要求(某事物)(常为无缘故的); 占便宜 Could I cadge a lift with you? 我能顺便坐你的汽车吗? He's always cadging meals from his friends. 他总吃朋友的便宜饭.
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Thomas Morton (surgeon)
Surgical Anatomy, with William Cadge, London, 1850.
They were illustrated by his brother Andrew Morton, and lithographed by William Fairland.
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Peggy Levitt
Religion on Edge (Co-editor with Courtney Bender, Wendy Cadge, and David Smilde) (Oxford University Press, 2012)
The Transnational Studies Reader (Co-editor
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cadging
cadging, vbl. n. (ˈkædʒɪŋ) [f. cadge v.] † 1. The binding or edging of a garment. Obs.1674 Depos. York Castle (1861) 209 After I toucht the cadgings of her skirts, she stept not many steps after. 2. The practice of a cadger in various senses. (See cadger 2.) Also attrib.1859 Sala Tw. round Clock 387...
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Isabel Leighton
It includes scripts for The Sapphire Ring, Cadge, and Mercenary Mary, as well as correspondence from John Kenneth Galbraith, Henry Kissinger, and Archibald
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cadger
cadger (ˈkædʒə(r)) Also 5–6 Sc. cadgear. [f. cadge v. + -er1.] 1. A carrier: esp. a species of itinerant dealer who travels with a horse and cart (or formerly with a pack-horse), collecting butter, eggs, poultry, etc., from remote country farms, for disposal in the town, and at the same time supplyi...
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John Hughes Bennett
Cadge, from which his enfeebled strength did not enable him to recover.
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kedge
▪ I. kedge, n. (kɛdʒ) [? short for kedge-anchor. Also catch: see catch n.3] = kedge-anchor.1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Kedge, a small anchor used to keep a ship steady whilst she rides in a harbour or river, particularly at the turn of the tide... The kedges are also..useful in transporting a...
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The Broken Vase
A sponger on his wife takes up collecting so he can cadge money and carry on with girls.
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cage-work
ˈcage-work [f. cage n. + work n.] 1. Open work like the bars of a cage; also fig.1625 Gill Sacr. Philos. ii. 173 If this foundation of the mixture of the two natures in Christ bee taken away, all the Cage-worke of the Theodosians, that the Mediatour is mortall, and of the Armenians, that hee could n...
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Bracondale School
Following Paul’s retirement in 1862, John Paul Cadge (who had previously conducted Bridge House School at Bungay) took control of Bracondale, then described Cadge, the school had been called Hillhouse School, Bracondale. In the 1930s it was sometimes known as Bracondale School for Boys.
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mooch
mooch/mu:tʃ; mutʃ/ v1 [Tn, Tn.pr]~ sth (off/from sb) (US infml 口) get sth by asking; cadge sth 乞讨某物 mooch money off sb 向某人讨钱.2 (phr v) mooch about/around (...) (infml 口) wander aimlessly around (a place) 漫步; 闲逛 mooching around the house with nothing to do 在房子周围无事闲逛.
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The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze
The disgusted Chinese set them adrift in a small boat; use Curly Joe's music-provoked strength to cadge food, clothes, and a trip to San Francisco from
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bludge
bludge, v. slang. (blʌdʒ) [Back-formation from bludger.] intr. a. To act as a prostitute's pimp. b. Austral. and N.Z. To shirk responsibility or hard work; to impose on. Also trans., to cadge or scrounge.1919 Downing Digger Dial. 12 Bludge on the flag, to fail to justify one's existence as a soldier...
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