[a. Sp. and F. caporal.]
† 1. A corporal. (Sp.)
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, II. i. 23. Of the best approued souldiers to chuse for Caporals. Ibid., Gloss. 249. Cabo de esquadra or Caporall, a Spanish word, is the head or chiefe vnder the Captaine of a small number of souldiers.
2. A kind of (superior) tobacco. (Fr.)
1850. Thackeray, Pendennis, lxix. (1885), 680. Couldn’t find a bit of tobacco fit to smoke till we came to Strasburg, where I got some Caporal.
