Caponize

Quick meaning: Caponize is a verb meaning (transitive) To castrate (a cockerel) in order to fatten it for table use.

Meaning

(transitive) To castrate (a cockerel) in order to fatten it for table use.

Example Sentences

To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […]

Word Forms

• caponizes
• caponizing
• caponized

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include capon, caprify, serve, fabricate, cocker, captive.

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