Obs. [a. mod.Du. kapen to take, pilfer, plunder; te kaap varen to go a privateering: see CAPER sb.3 Cf. also CAP v.2: but it is uncertain whether there is any original connection.] To take or seize as a privateer; also, to go a privateering. Hence Caped ppl. a., Caping vbl. sb.
1676. Row, Supp. Blair’s Autobiog., xi. (1848), 489. Some of our grandees get much by their caping.
1721. Wodrow, Hist. Ch. Scotl., I. 220 (Jam.). Some private persons made themselves rich by caping or privateering upon the Dutch.
1759. Fountainhall, Decisions, I. 80 (Jam.). The buyers of caped goods in England are not liable in restitution.
