Cappabar

Quick meaning: Cappabar is a noun meaning (nautical, obsolete) a misappropriation of government property; embezzlement or fraud carried out in the management of a ship.

Meaning

(nautical, obsolete) a misappropriation of government property; embezzlement or fraud carried out in the management of a ship.

Example Sentences

If e'er the Fortune of the war Gave him a Prize, he'd cap a bar Like blazes--but stand clear! that elf Who dared to steal besides himself.

Patrick O'Brian, *The Mauritius Command.* disposing of His Majesty's property was an immemorial practice among His Majesty's servants … and in the Navy it went by the name of cappabar.

Word Forms

• capperbar
• capabarre
• cape bar

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include barratry, plunderage, peculation, misappropriation, embezzlement, malappropriation.

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