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▪ I. capel1 Min.|ˈkeɪp(ə)l|
Also caple.
A composite stone of quartz, schorl, and hornblende, occurring in the walls of tin and copper lodes (Raymond Mining Gloss. 1881).
1801Hitchins in Phil. Trans. XCI. 162 The copper lode is filled with layers of ore and stony matter, the latter of which is here [in Cornwall] called Caple.
▪ II. † capel2, cappell Alch. Obs.
[ad. L. capella, app. so used in med.L. by alchemists; see Du Cange.]
? A kind of large crucible.
1527Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters A ij a, Ye must have cappellys of whyte claye..comonly halfe a yerde wyde and depe. Ibid. A ij b, As brode and longe as the cappell or fornays is. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. II. Plate 12 Cappels. [1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Capella, Spanish, cupelling furnace.]
▪ III. capel3
variant of caple, Obs., a horse. |