† caˈpoche, v. trans. Obs. rare—1.
Meaning uncertain: Johnson suggests ‘perhaps to strip off the hood’, f. capouch; it might also be a sportive use of caboche v.
| 1664 Butler Hud. ii. ii. 529 We still have..Capoched [ed. 1689 has o'er-reach'd] your Rabbins of the Synod And snapt their Canons with a Why-not. |