Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of swelling like a wen, growing on the back part of a horse's hock, or on the point of the elbow. Also written capulet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Far.) A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down.

Etymologies

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French capelet.

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