caponize

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caponize

verb caponizes · caponizing · caponized

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

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verb to castrate a cockerel

Français	chaponner
Deutsch	kapaunen, kapaunisieren, Junghähne kappen
Italiano	capponare, accapponare

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@misc{caponize_2026,
  title = {caponize},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/caponize},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}