cadger

Example Sentences

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John Cadger who is working away from home in Ghana went to pay his respects at the cenotaph in Takoradi.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2014

Michale A. Cadger Knoxville, Tenn. Please do not imply that American youth is eating up the products of "rock's new sensation."

From Time Magazine Archive

Cadger is used in Scottish of an itinerant fish merchant with his goods carried in paniers by a pony— "Or die a cadger pownie's death, At some dyke-back."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

He had to come back here with the Cadger and Gannet in a little while, and he dared not risk anything that would imperil his rôle in the eyes of the underworld.

From Doors of the Night by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)

"But wha's to ken that? an' hoo are we to gather?" asked Cadger, who seemed both of a practical and a despondent turn of mind.

From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George