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  • verb Present participle of caponize.

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Examples

  • The worst of the lot was a random article in a North Carolina newspaper from 1939 where the columnist was offering caponisation demonstrations to all comers after readers had reunited him or her with the equipment (‘We mentioned that we had loaned our caponizing set to someone and forgot who borrowed it.’) …

    Fowl Play « Awful Library Books 2010

  • Loyl Stromberg, the author of a fifty-two-page treatise on caponizing and capon management, is just as discouraging.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • Loyl Stromberg, the author of a fifty-two-page treatise on caponizing and capon management, is just as discouraging.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • Even Gail Damerow, the guru of DIY poultry, is pretty cavalier about the collateral damage associated with caponizing.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • Even Gail Damerow, the guru of DIY poultry, is pretty cavalier about the collateral damage associated with caponizing.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • Even Gail Damerow, the guru of DIY poultry, is pretty cavalier about the collateral damage associated with caponizing.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • First, Caleb and I built the chicken coop; now, we must set up the caponizing station.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • First, Caleb and I built the chicken coop; now, we must set up the caponizing station.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • His initial wager is that fifteen of the twenty-five will survive long enough to be eaten; now, in light of the information about what caponizing entails and how much of it there is to be done, Caleb says he needs more time to reconsider his bet.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • His initial wager is that fifteen of the twenty-five will survive long enough to be eaten; now, in light of the information about what caponizing entails and how much of it there is to be done, Caleb says he needs more time to reconsider his bet.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

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