Cape

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  • noun. A sleeveless outer garment fastened at the throat and worn hanging over the shoulders.
  • noun. A brightly colored cloth used in maneuvering the bull in a bullfight; a capote or muleta.
  • transitive verb. To maneuver (the bull) by means of a cape in a bullfight.
  • noun. A point or head of land projecting into a body of water.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In England, a judicial writ, now abolished, used in proceedings by the king or a feudal lord to recover land on the default of a tenant: called cape from its initial word.
  • Nautical, to keep a course; head or point: as, how does she cape?
  • noun. A circular covering for the shoulders and adjacent parts, either separate or attached to the top of a garment, as that of a gown or an overcoat.
  • noun. A short circular garment hanging from the shoulders, worn for protection against the weather.
  • noun. The coping of a wall.
  • noun. plural Ears of corn broken off in thrashing.
  • noun. A piece of land jutting into a sea or a lake beyond the adjoining coast-line.
  • noun. [capitalized] A wine resembling sherry or canary, from the Cape of Good Hope.
  • To gaze; gape.
  • noun. A Cape diamond.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To head or point; to keep a course.
  • noun. A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See cloak.
  • noun. A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.
  • noun. a large and powerful buffalo of South Africa (Bubalus Caffer). It is said to be the most dangerous wild beast of Africa. See Buffalo, 2.
  • noun. See Jasmine.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. a petrel (Daptium Capense) common off the Cape of Good Hope. It is about the size of a pigeon.
  • noun. wine made in South Africa.
  • noun. the Cape of Good Hope, in the general sense of the southern extremity of Africa. Also used of Cape Horn, and, in New England, of Cape Cod.
  • intransitive verb. To gape.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
  • noun. A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips.
  • verb. To head or point; to keep a course.
  • verb. To gape.
  • verb. To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
  • noun. a strip of land projecting into a body of water
  • Word Usage
    "IV. iii.140 (431,3) [a small compass'd cape] A _compass'd cape_ is a round cape."
    Equivalent
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Snape  agape  ape  crepe  drape  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    apron  breech  cap  cloak  collar  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    cloak