cadge vs sap

cadge

verb
  • To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. 

  • To carry, as a burden. 

  • To beg. 

  • To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do. 

  • To carry hawks and other birds of prey. 

  • To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc. 

noun
  • A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale. 

sap

verb
  • To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of. 

  • To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps. 

  • To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken. 

  • To gradually weaken. 

  • To strike with a sap (with a blackjack). 

  • To exhaust the vitality of. 

  • To pierce with saps. 

  • To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.). 

noun
  • A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc. 

  • The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. 

  • The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. 

  • Vitality. 

  • A naive person; a simpleton 

  • Any juice. 

  • A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack. 

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