▪ I. † caboche, n. Obs.
[see next and cabot.]
A fish; the Bull-head, or Miller's Thumb.
| c 1425 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 641 Hic caput, caboche. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 57 Caboche, currulia. |
▪ II. † caˈboche, v. ? Obs.
Also 6 cabage.
[f. F. cabocher (in same sense) implied in pple. adj. caboché caboched, and used (as cabacher) by Palsgr., f. caboche = It. capocchia augm. and pejorative of capo head. The form cabage is identified with cabbage v.1, which is ultimately the same word.]
trans. To cut off the head of (a deer) close behind the horns.
| a 1425 Bk. Hunting MS. Bodl. 546 fol. 93 Þer nedeth no more but to caboche his heed. 1530 Palsgr. 596, I kabage a deere, je cabaiche. I wyll cabage my dere..je cabacheray ma beste. 1575 Turberv. Bk. Venerie xliii. 134 It is cut off near to the head. And then the heade is cabaged [i.e.] cut close by the hornes through the braine pan, untill you come vnderneath the eyes, and ther it is cut off. |