[f. prec.; = F. chaponner.] trans. To make a capon of; to castrate. Hence Caponed ppl. a., Caponing vbl. sb.
1624. Massinger, Renegado, I. i. Had it been discovered, I had been caponed.
1668. R. L’Estrange, Vis. Quev., 141. Nothing but a Capon’d, a Thing unman’d, could ever [etc.].
1693. Dryden, Juvenal’s Sat., VI. 487.
1886. N. Zealand Her., 1 June, 2/6. The caponing of male fowl birds.
