capon

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If trussed like a capon, the legs are placed more apart.

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  1. noun A male chicken castrated when young to improve the quality of its flesh for food.

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  • She supped on cold roast capon, a pear tart with cinnamon, and mead mulled with a hot poker. —  Julian, May - Boreal Moon 01 - Conqueror's Moon
  • After a subterranean passage of a few miles it reappears on the opposite side “clear as crystal.” From this point to its mouth in the Potomac it bears the name of Ca-capon or Capon. —  Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary
  • "To prepare the digestion for your capon, I have made a vegetable soup with a slice of fat bacon and a big beef bone. —  Dieux ont soif. English
  • The precipitous banks of red sandstone are richly clothed with vegetation, some of the trees ancient and very fine, especially the magnificent one called the capon tree, and the lofty king of the wood, remnants of the fine forests which at one time had covered the country. —  Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
  • From this point to its mouth in the Potomac it bears the name of Ca-capon or Capon. —  Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk
 

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  1. Middle English capoun, from Old English capūn and from Old French capon, both from Latin cāpō, cāpōn-.

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  1. from Middle English capon, capun (also assibilated chapoun, after F. chapon), from Anglo-Saxon capūn = Middle Dutch kappoen, Dutch kapoen, kapuin = Low German Swedish Danish kapun = Middle High German kapūn, German kapaun = French chapon = Provencal Spanish capon = Portuguese capão = Italian cappone, from Latin capo(n-) (also capus, later Old High German chappo, Middle High German kappe) (Middle Latin also caponus), from Greek κάπων, a capon, prob. from √ *καπ, representing by κόπτειν, cut.
  2. = German kapaunen = French chaponner = Provencal caponar = Italian capponare; from the noun.
 

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/ˈkeɪpən/
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