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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1680
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Capering, vbl. n. [f. Caper n. Cf. Caping.] Privateering. —c1680 Row Blair 491; c1680 Ib. 509.
Which … great loss of ships, together with the Scots capering, did not a little irritate the Dutch
