A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375, 1499-1657
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Cage, Cadge, n. Also: caig(e, kaige, caidge. [ME. cage (a 1225), kage, kaig(e, F. cage.] A cage. 1331 Exchequer Rolls I. 372.]
[Pro vno cage ad leonem a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 1043.
A faire ȝoung man … saw hir sit sa in a cage c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxii. 23.
In siluer caigis thai sit at cheif 1513 Doug. i. v. 117.
With hard irne bandis claspit fast in cage 1513 Id. 904/17.
As doith the byrd in cage 1562 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 648/2.
Ane kaige for the papingo a1585 Maitland Quarto MS lxvi. 86.
In ane cadge … The sillie bird full painfullie dois pyne 1587 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 88.
For making of ane cadge for taking of the fox 1605 Wedderb. Compt Bk. 56.
Ane caidge of weir for a laverok 1626 Garden Worthies 105 (see Cace n.2 1).
Cadge 1657 Balfour Ann. I. 135.
Lyke a wylde beaste … co[o]pte upe in ane irone cadge
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