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cache ((v.)) [< F cacher hide]

• 1a v. of things, hide or conceal.

  • 1893  (1908)  Let us caché their corpses, and get back to the fort as quick as we can.
  • 1909  He's cached away his gold dust, but he's sort of bucking up. . . .
  • 1965  Thomas and two trappers . . . cached their canoe at the mouth of the Unknown and walked westward. . . .

• 1b v. of persons, be in hiding.

  • 1918  "Why, this very beef here was for 'em, while they was up cached in the bush."

• 2 v. deposit in a cache (def. 2) for later use.

  See also: cache ((n.)) (def. 2)  

  • 1854  (1892)  He accordingly cached enough provision to last them back, with four days' dog-meat.
  • 1947  (1963)  . . . each trapper could return year after year to his own trapping grounds, and find his trapping gear undisturbed where he had cached it at the end of the previous season.
  • 1966  Meat, blubber and skin were carefully cached and at the end of the season, Eskimos from Pond Inlet came to pick them up as an addition to their winter provisions

• 3 v. deposit (in a safe place).

  • 1963  [He] ordered the caching of militia arms in central stockpiles so that they would be easier to guard.