[Cabande], f. (popular), candle, or “glim.” Estourbir la ——, to blow the candle out.
Cabas, m. (popular), old hat. Une mère ——, rapacious old woman. Properly, cabas, a woman’s bag.
Cabasser (popular), to chatter, to gabble; to delude, or “bamboozle;” to steal, “to prig.”
Cabasseur, m. (popular), scandal-monger; thief, “prig.” [See Grinche].
Cabe, m. (students’), third year student at the Ecole Normale, a higher training school for professors, and one which holds the first rank among Colleges of the University of France; (popular) a dog. See [Cabo].
Cabermon, m. (thieves’), wine-shop, “lush-crib.” A corruption of cabaret.
Cabestan, m. (thieves’), police inspector; police officer, “crusher,” “pig,” “copper,” or “reeler.”
Cabillot, m. (sailors’), soldier, “lobster.”
Câble à rimouque, m. (fishermens’), tow-line.
Souque! attrape à carguer! Pare à l’amarre! Et souque!