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▪ I. cassie1, -y dial.|ˈkæsɪ| Also cazzie, cosie. [= Icel. ‘kass. mod. kassi a case, large box, creel’.] A kind of basket made of straw, used in Orkney and Caithness.
1693Wallace Orkney 34 A sort of Vessel made of Straw, called Cassies, in which they keep and transport their Corn. 1793Statist. Acc. Scot. VII. 524 Straw cazzies which were used as sacks for carrying Victual. Ibid. X. 23 (Jam.) Straw creels called cassies, made very compactly of long oat straw. 1880Times 30 Sept., A peculiar basket made of plaited straw and called a ‘cassy’. The ‘cassy’ is strapped to the shoulders in such a way as to leave the hands free. ▪ II. cassie2|ˈkæsiː| = casse paper; also see quots.
1688[see casse paper]. 1770Luckombe Concise Hist. Printing 496 Cassie paper, broken paper. 1889Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang I. 218/2 Cassie (printers), wrinkled, or outside sheets of paper. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 140/2 Cassie, the damaged tops and bottoms of a ream of paper. ▪ III. cassie3 U.S.|ˈkæsiː| [Fr., ad. Pr. cacio acacia.] A leguminous shrub with yellow flowers, Acacia farnesiana.
1876C. E. Hobbs Bot. Hand-bk. 20 Cassie, the flowers yield a perfume, Acacia Farnesiana. 1905Yng. Woman Apr. 230/1 Mignonette, and cassie. 1952A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 3 A[cacia]..Farnesiana, ‘Popinac’, ‘Cassie’..Tropics. |