cape

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A sleeveless outer garment fastened at the throat and worn hanging over the shoulders.
2. n. A brightly colored cloth used in maneuvering the bull in a bullfight; a capote or muleta.
3. v. To maneuver (the bull) by means of a cape in a bullfight.
4. n. A point or head of land projecting into a body of water.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A circular covering for the shoulders and adjacent parts, either separate or attached to the top of a garment, as that of a gown or an overcoat.
2. n. A short circular garment hanging from the shoulders, worn for protection against the weather.
3. n. The coping of a wall.
4. n. plural Ears of corn broken off in thrashing.
5. n. A piece of land jutting into a sea or a lake beyond the adjoining coast-line.
6. n. [capitalized] A wine resembling sherry or canary, from the Cape of Good Hope.
7. Nautical, to keep a course; head or point: as, how does she cape?
8. n. In England, a judicial writ, now abolished, used in proceedings by the king or a feudal lord to recover land on the default of a tenant: called cape from its initial word. The caps magnum, or grand cape, was the writ for possession when the tenant failed to appear. The cape parvum, or petit cape, was the shorter writ issued when the plaintiff prevailed after the tenant had appeared.
9. To gaze; gape.
10. n. A Cape diamond.

Wiktionary

1. n. geography A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
2. n. A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips.
3. v. nautical To head or point; to keep a course.
4. v. obsolete To gape.
5. v. To skin an animal, particularly a deer.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.
2. v. (Naut.) To head or point; to keep a course.
3. n. A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See cloak.
4. v. obsolete To gape.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
2. n. a strip of land projecting into a body of water