Etymology

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Today it means: Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons. Full definition →

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From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.