Definition of "capon" []

• A male chicken castrated when young to improve the quality of its flesh for food. (noun)

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• "The precipitous banks of red sandstone are richly clothed with vegetation, some of the trees ancient and very fine, especially the magnificent one called the capon tree, and the lofty king of the wood, remnants of the fine forests which at one time had covered the country."
• "The neutered rooster, called a capon, was also prized for its fat."
• "_ “Gallinacius/the capon is a gelded cocke/& because"