[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.]

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  1.  Falconry. (See quots.)

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1615.  Latham, Falconry (1633), Wds. of Art expl., Cadge, is taken for that on which Faulconers carrie many Hawks together when they bring them to sell.

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1721.  Bailey, Cadge, a round Frame of Wood, on which Hawks are carried to be sold.

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1865.  Cornh. Mag., May, 623. We shall not trouble ourselves to take out the cadge to-day, for our party is quite strong enough to carry the hawks on the fist.

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  2.  A pannier.

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