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cache ((n.))
[< F cache < cacher to hide; influenced in several senses by Cdn F use]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1an.
a secret hiding place.
Quotations
1804
[I] dispatched Mr. Seraphin . . . to examine a Cache of H W [High Wines] to know if all are safe.
1885
It is believed to this day that there is a cache somewhere in the vicinity where he buried his liquor before taking his departure. . . .
1965
Circling out from the tent they found them in a cache 50 or 60 yards away.
1bn.
the contents of a secret hiding place.
Quotations
<i>c</i>1669
[One hides a cache of meal, the other his camp iron and all, and all that could cumbersome.]
1879
Small caches of wine and spirits, hoarded away from the meagher annual allowance, make their appearance upon the board, and add to the hilarity of the occasion.
1929
The theory came to be accepted that he had "caches" [of gold] buried on his farm.
1964
Police have recovered a large cache of money believed from the $54,000 robbery of a National Employment Service vault in Vancouver.
1cn.
raise a cache, discover or retrieve a cache or hidden supply of whisky or other goods.
Quotations
1914
. . . many a whisky cache or hiding-place was raised to enable Pat and his many admirers to do honour to the occasion.
1962
"I raised a cache yesterday," he went on, "but blew it all in last night . . . give me a pick-me-up."
2n.
a storing place where supplies, furs, equipment and other goods may be deposited for protection from foraging animals and the weather.
Such caches may be in the form of holes in the ground, ice, or snow, marked or protected by cairns; they may be enclosed platforms set high in trees or merely the upper fork of a tree; or they may be well-built hutch-like contrivances raised off the ground on posts.
Quotations
1578
[Going on shoare [we] found where the people of the Countrie had bene, and had hid their prouision in great heapes of stones, being both fleshe and fishe, which they had killed.]
1797
[He] had a large Cash of Provisions at . . . that river. . . .
1808
Here we put three bales of salmon into cache and carried the rest through a very rugged country.
1824
Here we see a specimine of a Thloadinni cache made in one of the Pine Trees. . . .
1898
At the mouth of the "Pelly" . . . were hundreds of men building "Caches" up on the trees, to store their outfits while they went up river prospecting.
1908
[The Eskimos] always made . . . provision for their return . . . by placing in one or more caches (built on and formed of large blocks of thick ice, well protected from wolves or wolverines. . . .
1929
The only circumstances in which they [grizzlies] will attack is when they have a dead animal "in cache". . . .
1963
The Mounties established a cache at Bernard Harbor for their colleagues on the trail from Coppermine. . . .
3n.
a supply of provisions, gasoline, and equipment stockpiled for future use.
See: gas cache
Quotations
1921
Two or three times in the winter he will be visited by bands of hungry Siwash, who . . . will beg everything he has and eat him out of cache and cabin.
1937
Beyond them on shore a cache of gasolene (two hundred barrels) assures them of much winter flying.
1966
. . . Rod Henderson . . . established the smaller caches [on Baffin I.] with the ski-wheel equipped Cessna 185. . . .
4n.
a hut, tent, lean-to or other structure used as a storehouse.
See: cache house
Quotations
1872
We made use of the cache or shanty on the bank, opening it for a small quantity of beans or soup.
1912
The stores are then put in large "caches" (i.e. large tents or specially constructed log shelters) at convenient points along the right of way. . . .
1964
Vegetation was abundant and various around the yellowish sandstone walls of the cache.
5n.
a blind used in hunting game.
Quotations
1866
Posted on a run, or crouched in his cache of green boughs. . . he knows that the bird . . . announces the approach of the wished-for deer.
1907
. . . we fixed a nice brush cache at different angles to the dam, wherein we were to sit and watch.
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