[kadʒ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled)
(e.g: he cadged fivers off old school friends)


Phrases:
- on the cadge

Origin:
early 17th century (in the dialect sense ‘carry about’): back-formation from the noun cadger, which dates from the late 15th century, denoting (in northern English and Scots) an itinerant dealer, whence the verb sense ‘hawk, peddle’, giving rise to the current verb senses from the early 19th century

[kadʒ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a padded wooden frame on which hooded hawks are carried to the field


Phrases:
- on the cadge

Origin:
apparently an alteration of cage, perhaps confused with the dialect verb cadge ‘carry about’
early 17th century (in the dialect sense ‘carry about’): back-formation from the noun cadger, which dates from the late 15th century, denoting (in northern English and Scots) an itinerant dealer, whence the verb sense ‘hawk, peddle’, giving rise to the current verb senses from the early 19th century