vbl. sb. [f. CADGE v.]

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  † 1.  The binding or edging of a garment. Obs.

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1674.  Depos. York Castle (1861), 209. After I toucht the cadgings of her skirts, she stept not many steps after.

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  2.  The practice of a cadger in various senses. (See CADGER 2.) Also attrib.

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1859.  Sala, Tw. round Clock, 387. Defunct saturnalia of patrician ‘cadging.’

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1859.  [J. D. Burn], Autobiog. Beggar Boy, 99. To join two genteel young men in the regular cadging trade.

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1879.  Dixon, Windsor, II. xxv. 254. No pride of place prevented him from cadging.

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