Obs. Also 6 cappe. [Etymology uncertain: not easily connected with prec., and being exclusively Eng., it cannot be the Scotch CAP sb.3] A closed wooden vessel; a cask.
1519. Horman, Vulg., 19. Valantynys be put and shocked in a close vessell as is a cappe.
1648. Wilkins, Dædalus, II. v. in Math. & Philos. Wks. (1802), II. 191 (J.). A barrel or cap, whose cavity will contain eight cubical feet of air, will not serve a urinator or diver for respiration, above one quarter of an hour.
