cete

plural cetes

1. rareA cetacean.

plural cetes

1. obsoleteA group of badgers; the warren of a group of badgers.

   Beasts from across the land, from different families, from different cetes, had gathered in one tunnel to set aside their differences and join the new cause.

   2013, Scott W. Guttormson, The Badger War, Trafford Publishing

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   He told how the herons always came at St. Valentine's to Felborough Wood and Chilham, and how the terns came in screaming gaggles when September was ending, and where the squirrels' drays were mostly found, and where he had seen a cete of badgers.

   1927, Alfred Tresidder Sheppard, Here Comes an Old Sailor, page 246

   A badger's earth or warren is properly and generally called a "set" or "cete." vary in respect of size, number of entrances, depth of galleries, and choice of site almost as much as rabbit-holes.

   1898, Sir Alfred Edward Pease, (Please provide the book title or journal name), Lawrence and Bullen, page 44

   Synonyms: clan, sett