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▪ I. capsize, n.|kæpˈsaɪz|
[f. next.]
= prec.
1807E. S. Barrett All the Talents 62 Shou'd he get a capcise How..could he rise? 1848J. Grant Adv. Aide-de-C. xxxviii, We escaped a capsize. 1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 152 In the event of a capsize they..will float.
▪ II. capsize, v.|kæpˈsaɪz|
[Origin unknown; app. originally a sailor's expression: not in Bailey, Johnson, Ash, nor in Todd 1818. The first element may possibly be cap n.1
(Prof. Skeat suggests corruption of Sp. cabezar ‘to nod, pitch as a ship’, or of capuzar in ‘capuzar un baxel, to sink a ship by the head’, from cabeza, cabo head.)]
1. trans. To upset, overturn (esp. on the water).
1788Dibdin Mus. Tour xxxv. 142, I began to think, with the sailors below, that there was certainly a chance of ‘our being capsized’. 1803Rees Cycl., Capsize, in Naval Language to upset or turn over anything. 1823Byron Juan ix. xviii, What if carrying sail capsize the boat? 1847–78Halliwell, Capsize, to move a hogshead or other vessel forward by turning it alternately on the heads. Somerset. 1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. II. 286 He..capsized the stool on which he had been seated.
fig.1833Marryat P. Simple xvii, I was capsized..when I looked at the house.
2. intr. (for refl.) To be upset or overturned.
1805A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. IV. 75 The captain..expressed his surprise that the ship should remain so long on her beam-ends, in such a heavy sea, without capsizing. 1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 140 The sail..will capsize behind the top-gallant sail.
Hence capˈsized ppl. a., capˈsizing vbl. n., etc.
1882Daily News 1 June 3/6 She fell in with a capsized vessel, apparently a schooner. |