cate
noun Usually cates. Archaic.
Origin of cate
Examples from the Web for cates
Contemporary Examples of cates
Meanwhile, internal affairs confronted Cates with DNA evidence linking him and the victim.
“I am here today because Officer Cates is a very bad man,” she said.
She returned to court on Jan. 18, to see Cates remanded, pending sentencing in April, when he faces a maximum of life in prison.
Cates appeared and grabbed her by the waist, spinning her around.
In other words, Cates was still a cop and she was still an inner-city teenage single mom.
Historical Examples of cates
And here may be noted the average negro's indifference to cates.
Southern Lights and ShadowsVarious
Mrs. Cates had left them alone, but in half an hour she came back.
Linda Carlton, Air PilotEdith Lavell
There was hot bread, too, and sundry ‘cates’ which would now be strange to our eyes.
Cakes & AleEdward Spencer
He had brought her cates to eat, or he would have beaten her into loving him.
The Fifth QueenFord Madox Ford
We have eaten salt together, to say nothing of pigeon pie and other cates.
The Vanishing ManR. Austin Freeman