cape
/keɪp/ verb C2- To incite or attract (a bull) to charge a certain direction, by waving a cape.
- To head or point; to keep a course. · The ship capes southwest by south.
- To skin (an animal, or particularly the head and shoulders of an animal, especially a deer), for taxidermy.
- To defend or praise, especially that which is unworthy.
- To cover (as) with or like a cape.
He/she/it capes · Past caped · Past participle caped · -ing form caping
Verb forms
- Base form
- cape
- He/she/it
- capes
- Past
- caped
- Past participle
- caped
- -ing form
- caping
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At the same time that the steamer disappeared behind Cape Morgiou, a man travelling post on the road from Florence to Rome had just passed the little town of Aquapendente.
“The ship reached Cape Town last night.
But if home be the other kind, let it be wide and long—enter you at the Golden Gate, hang your hat on Hatteras, your cape on Cape Horn and go out by the Labrador.
I got one letter from the hospital at Cape Town and one from Southampton.
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