In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
caked
simple past tense and past participle of cake
caked (not generally comparable, comparative more caked, superlative most caked)
(slang, smoking, of a pipe) Empty with nothing left to smoke but ash.
• kicked
Source: Wiktionary
Cake, n. Etym: [OE. cake, kaak; akin to Dan. kage, Sw. & Icel. kaka, D. koek, G.kuchem, OHG. chuocho.]
1. A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
2. A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
4. A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood. Dryden. Cake urchin (Zoöl), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea.
– Oil cake the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes.
– To have one's cake dough, to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected. Shak.
Cake, v. i.
Definition: To form into a cake, or mass.
Cake, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caked; p. pr. & vb. n. Caking.]
Definition: To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. Clotted blood that caked within. Addison.
Cake, v. i.
Definition: To cackle as a goose. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.