Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make a capon of. Also spelled
caponise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To castrate, as a fowl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
castrate acockerel in order to fatten it for table use.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb convert a cock into a capon
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Examples
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To illustrate: the injection of estrogens will caponize a rooster just as castration (removal of androgens) will.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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The white Plymouth Rocks we can caponize and easily sell, and the white Leghorns we will either have to kill and sell as broilers, or it may be we can sell them to the farmers around here to improve their flocks.
Hidden Treasure John Thomas Simpson
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_The best time to caponize the cockerel_ is when he weighs between two or three pounds.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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