Also 7 cassawder. A variant of CASSAVA.
a. 1642. Sir W. Monson, Naval Tracts, iv. (1703), 450/2. We shall not want a sufficient quantity of Maiz and Cassado for Bread.
1661. Hickeringill, Jamaica, 74. His Bread and drink both made of one root are, Cassawder call’d, cook’d by the womens care.
1756. P. Browne, Jamaica, 349. Cassava, Cassada, or Cassadar.
1777. Robertson, Hist. Amer. (1778), I. II. 125. The insipid bread made of the cassada-root.
1802. Naval Chron., VIII. 149, note. A kind of bread … called cassada, or cassavi.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., x. (1828), I. 337. The larvæ … feed on the indigo and cassada.
1873. Act 36 & 37 Vict., lxxxviii. Sched. i. An extraordinary quantity of … manioc, or cassada, commonly called farinha.
attrib. 1750. G. Hughes, Barbados, 249. The poisonous Cassado juice.
1713. Derham, Phys.-Theol., 59. The Cassada-Plant unprepared poisoneth.
