▪ I. † caperer, n.1
= caper n.3, privateer.
| 1676 W. Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. xii. (1848) 508 At this time our caperers set to sea. |
▪ II. caperer, n.2
(ˈkeɪpərə(r))
[f. caper v. + -er1.]
1. One who capers.
| 1693 Dryden Juvenal, The nimble caperer on the cord. 1812 Byron Waltz x, Columbia's caperers to the warlike whoop. |
2. A caddis-fly (Phryganea); from its flight.
| 1855 Kingsley Glaucus (1878) 208 Caperers and sandflies. 1863 ― Water-bab. 80 Fly away as a caperer, on four fawn-coloured wings, with long legs and horns. |