chapon2 (s.xii1/3)
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chapon2 (s.xii1/3)

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[ FEW: 2/i,267a capo; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 9,44c chapon; TL: 2,249 chapon; DEAF:  chapon; DMF:  chapon 1; TLF:  chapon; OED:  capon n.; MED:  capoun n.; DMLBS: 272c capo ]
capon,  capoun,  capun;  chapoun,  chapun,  chaupun  40,  chiapun  32.128, 
pl. chapeus  477.38  

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1orn.zool.capon, neutered male chicken: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiii2 )  Alectoires est une piere [...]: En gesir de coc la trovum U el ventre de viel chapun  206.78
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  coc, chapon ne guelinne  i 151.4187
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  altiles: chapons  ii 88
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiiex )  Allectoire […] Si crest en ventre dechapon. Treis anz ert coc, pus ert chastrez  78.218
( 1314-15 )  ouwes, gelynes, chapons, columbeux, poucyns  i 295
♦astron.constellation of the capon, cock (?): 
( s.xiiim; MS: c.1335 )  De pyerte: Le chapoun siet jugger Si pierte deis recoverer  13
2 name (used as a surname): 
( 1165 )  Willelmus Capun  Capon
( 1285 )  Cuthbertus Capoun  Capon
chapon de haute gresse
1culin.well-fattened capon: 
( 1427-28; MS: s.xv )  Capoun de haut grees […] Chapons de haut grees rostez  247a.i-c.i
chaponer 
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