† Cader, cadar. World English Historical Dictionary

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Obs. exc. dial. [Identical in form and meaning with, and prob. a. Welsh cader ‘chair,’ in Mid. Welsh also ‘cradle’; used also as in sense 2, and applied to a ‘framework’ of various kinds. (If sense 3 is not the same word, we may perh. compare F. cadre frame.)]

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  † 1.  A cradle. Obs.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 82. Heo makeð of hire tunge cradel [MS. Cleop. cader] to þes deofles bearn, and rockeð it. Ibid., 378. Hwon ȝe beoð ibunden wiðinnen uour large wowes, and he in a neruh kader [MS. Titus D cradel].

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  2.  A light frame of wood put over a scythe to lay the corn more even in the swathe.

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1679.  Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 353. Their barley they mow with the Sithe and Cadar in the South parts of the County.

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  3.  ‘A small frame of wood, on which a fisherman keeps his line’ (dial.) Halliwell.

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1880.  Miss Courtney, West Cornwall Gloss. (E. D. S.).

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