caple
See also: Caple
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse kapall, from Latin caballus. Doublet of cheval.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
caple (plural caples)
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Lower Sorbian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
caple
- inflection of capla:
Middle English edit
Noun edit
caple (plural caples)
- horse
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- ‘Herkne, my broþer, herkne, by þy feiþ! / Herestow nat how þat þe cartere seiþ? / Hent it anon, for he haþ yeve it þee,/ Boþe hey and cart, and eek his caples þre.’
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