All 8 Uses of
cache
in
Oryx and Crake
- Then he goes to the other side of the tree, well away from his customary urinal, and rummages around in the cache he's improvised from a few slabs of concrete, lining it with wire mesh to keep out the rats and mice.†
p. 4..3
- Once the rain has slowed to a drizzle and the rumbles of thunder have receded, he slogs back to his cement-slab cache to collect the empty beer bottles.†
p. 44..8
- From behind his concrete-slab cache he brings out one of his finds — an orange plastic pail, faded to pink but otherwise undamaged.†
p. 102..8
- After a long session of tossing, turning, and scratching, he climbs back down to seek out the Scotch bottle in his cache.†
p. 106..6
- He slides open the cache, fumbles blindly within it, retrieves the third of Scotch.†
p. 107..6
- Then he opens up his cement-block cache, puts on his one-eyed sunglasses, drinks water from a stored beer bottle.†
p. 148..6
- What's in the cache, foodwise?
p. 149..0 *cache = things of value stored in a hidden place
- He goes to his cache, opens it, drinks some water.†
p. 372..3
Definition:
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(cache as in: cache of arms) a storage space -- often hidden to hold valuables, provisions or weapons; or the storing of things