en cache

[< Cdn F "in a hiding place"]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a storing place where supplies, furs, equipment and other goods may be deposited for protection from foraging animals and the weather.

See: cache ((n.))(def. 2 and picture)

Quotations

1794

[We] embarked . . . with the greatest care of the baggage, leaving the rest behind en cache.

1874

Cust accompanied us some distance down the River to where Dacoigne had the Beaver skins en cache.

1925

The canoe was dragged ashore, and placed en cache on the bank with their baggage.