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chaponer (s.xiii1)
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chaponer (s.xiii1)

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chapuner;  kapouner  
  FEW:  capo 2/i,267a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  chaponner 9,45a TL: chaponer  DEAF:  chapon  DMF:  chaponner  TLF:  chaponner  OED:  capon v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

to capon, castrate, render sterile: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  Quant li chapouns est chapunez Et il ad ses treis anz passez  Lapid 160.107
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  E li chapun mustrent par sei Les seinz de la nuvele lei Ki bien esteient chapunez Quant se tindrent en chastetez  Mirur1 159vb3
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Si vous volez [avoir] tercel ou faucoun madle [...] si le kapounez cum un kokerel  Glan lex 52

p.p. as a.

castrated: 
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  les cols d’owe et de geline plus vallent, et les oisias chaponez miés vallent que les autres  Waterford busby 282.S96.12
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