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▪ I. capper, n.1|ˈkæpə(r)|
Also 6 cappar.
[f. cap n. and v. + -er1.]
†1. A capmaker. Obs.
1389Eng. Gilds (1870) 12 Philippo atte Vyne, Cappere, ciui Londonie. 1488–9Act 4 Hen. VII, ix, No hatter nor capper..[shall] put to sell any hatte..above the price of xxd. 1574Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 158 Richarde Philipes, capper. 1581W. Stafford Exam. Compl. i. (1876) 14 He..bryngeth wyth him..a Capper of the same towne. 1677A. Yarranton Engl. Improv. 162 The benefit that may come..to the Cappers of Bewdley. 1805J. Luccock Nat. Wool 67 In the reign of Elizabeth the cappers made a violent struggle to counteract the trade of their rivals.
2. One who caps; in various senses of the verb.
1587Golding De Mornay xviii. (1617) 320 A thousand flatterers, and as many crouchers and cappers. 1850L. Hunt Autobiog. 100 An excellent capper of verses. 1876Mid-Yorksh. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Capper, an extinguisher.
3. dial. A person or thing who ‘caps’ or ‘beats’ all others; a thing which ‘beats’ one's comprehension.
1790Mrs. Wheeler Westmld. Dial. (1840) 13 Nea yan knas what it means, it's a capper. 1802R. Anderson Cumbld. Ball. 52 Then at dancin, O he was a capper! 1868E. Waugh in Lanc. Gloss. That's a capper of a tale, as heaw! 1877Holderness Gloss. It's a capper wheear mah knife's gone teeah.
4. One who or that which caps: in various technical senses.
a1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Capper, a tool used in placing the priming cap on its seat in the rear end of the metallic shell. 1890Pall Mall Gaz. 28 June 4/3 Employed by the prosecuting firm [of perfumers] as ‘cappers’. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §138 Glass capper, cuts off glass as it leaves tubes of glass blowing machine. Ibid. §459 Capper, bottle,..fixes a small paper, tin, or lead foil cover over corks of bottles. 1955J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 90 A combined unit which fills the bottle and applies its own aluminium cap... A 20-head filler and 8-head capper.
5. An accomplice, esp. a confederate in a gambling game; a dummy bidder at an auction. slang (chiefly U.S.).
1753J. Poulter Discoveries (ed. 2) 27 There is generally four Persons concerned, that is, the Sailor, call'd a Legg Cull, to pinch the Nobb; the next is the Capper, who always keeps with the Sailor. 1853Alta California (San Francisco) 25 Apr. 1/7 A glib-mouthed auctioneer and at least two cappers, puffers, or decoy-ducks. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 319 Cappers they [‘strikers’] are called, when the game is the famous Three-Card Monte. 1926J. Black You can't Win xiii. 184 His ‘cappers’, ‘boosters’, and ‘shills’..always beat them to the pieces of soap containing the money.
▪ II. capper
Sc. var. of copper. |