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▪ I. capping, vbl. n.|ˈkæpɪŋ|
[f. cap v.1 + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the vb. cap in various senses.
1592Greene Groatsw. Wit (1617) 3 Schollers..receiued (after long capping and reuerence) a sixepenny reward. 1602Return fr. Parnass. i. iv. (Arb.) 17 Letts leaue this capping of rimes. 1717De Foe Hist. Ch. Scot. ii. 45 The Bishop..would have proved that Capping, or pulling off the Hat, and kneeling, were synonimous. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola i. xvi. (1880) I. 225 To be swamped in the capping of impromptu verses. 1883Athenæum 3 Nov. 564/1 A capping of the Cervantic with the Rabelaisian spirit. 1885M. Pattison Mem. 57 In the thought of how I ought to perform my first act of ‘capping’ I omitted the ceremony altogether.
b. spec. The putting of a gun-cap upon a gun, etc. Also attrib.
1847Infantry Man. (1854) 34 Bring the firelock down to the capping position. 1866Cornh. Mag. Sept. 345 A capping system..entails a loss of not less than fifty per cent. in rapidity. 1881Greener Gun 105 The best capping breech-loader ever invented.
c. The ceremony of conferring a University degree in Scotland. Also N.Z.
1905Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 2/3 Sir Robert Stout..announced at the last capping at Wellington that..if the students persisted in their senseless conduct there would be no more capping ceremonies in public. 1966Weekly News (N.Z.) 27 Apr. 10/4 Invading students from Massey University did not have permission from the Auckland City Council to sell their capping magazine in Queen St.
d. The practice of taking a definite sum of money for a day's hunting from a non-subscriber to the hunt. (See cap n.1 6.)
1890Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Feb. 3/1 The proceeds of the capping should go to a damage fund. 1897Daily News 16 Jan. 7/6 It has just been decided by the Hunt Committee to introduce the ‘capping’ system into the Quorn country next season.
2. Cap-making; the capper's trade.
1662Fuller Worthies, Wales 49 Capping anciently set fifteen distinct Callings on work.
3. That with which anything is capped, covered at the top, or overlaid. spec. of honey or cells in a honeycomb.
1713Lond. & Country Brew. iii. (1743) 207 Under its Capping of fresh Malt. 1792Phil. Trans. LXXII. 374 The upper plate of lead which served as a capping to the junction of the hip with the ridge of the roof. 1832H. T. De la Beche Geol. Man. 409 It is here without that great capping of the oolitic group. 1850J. Leitch tr. Müller's Anc. Art 316 A truncated pillar..with base and capping. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 25 The capping of sand..of insignificant thickness. 1934in Webster. 1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Jan. 27/2 When drained free of surplus honey, wax cappings [of cells] should not be thrown away.
4. attrib. and Comb., as capping-sheaf, capping-stone; capping-leather, leather from which the upper leather of a shoe is made; capping-plane (Joinery), a plane for working the upper surface of the balustrade on a staircase; capping-woollen, woollen stuff for cap-making.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (1856) 142 *Cappinge leather is soe deare.
1877E. Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) *Capping-sheaves, the hood-sheaves of a ‘stook’ of corn. *Capping-stones, the coping stones of a wall or other building.
1555Fardle Facions ii. ix. 198 Rounde about these sparres thei straine *cappyng wollen.
▪ II. capping, ppl. a.|ˈkæpɪŋ|
[f. cap v.1 + -ing2.]
That caps, that makes an obeisance.
1602Breton Mother's Bless. lxii. (D.) A smoothing tongue, a capping knee. |