Plural of cade; possibly a barrel or wooden vessel used for storage, or a type of juniper tree.
Possibly from Middle English 'cade,' which may relate to wooden barrels or containers. The word's etymology is uncertain and may have multiple separate origins.
The word 'cade' is so obscure that etymologists are still uncertain about its origins—it might be a vessel, a tree, or even a obsolete unit of measurement, and nobody's sure which.
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