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caponizing

caponizing is the present participle and gerund of caponize.

Meaning of caponize

Verb

caponize (third-person singular simple present caponizes, present participle caponizing, simple past and past participle caponized)

  1. (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...1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion: Or Profitable Directions for Whatever Relates to the Management and Good Œconomy of the Domestick Concerns of a Country Life...

Questions about caponizing

What is caponizing the present participle and gerund of?
Caponizing is the present participle and gerund of caponize.

Words near caponizing in the dictionary

  1. caponize
  2. caponized
  3. caponizer
  4. caponizers
  5. caponizes
  6. caponizing
  7. caponomics
  8. capons
  9. Capoocan
  10. Capoompeta
  11. caporal

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