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Definition of Cappers
1. capper [n] - See also: capper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cappers
Literary usage of Cappers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1890)
"Mappin, 14 111. 193; 56 Am, Dec. 601; 1 Dillon oa Municipal Corporations, sees.
445, 447. FIELD v. cappers. [81 MAINE, M.] FLEA DI so AND PRACTICE. ..."
2. The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-taylor of London, from A.D by Henry Machin, John Gough Nichols (1848)
"and fletchers ; armourers and linen armourers (the latter were associated with
the tailors) ; and there were cappers and hosiers, distinct trades, ..."
3. Liber Albus: The White Book of the City of London by John Carpenter, Henry Thomas Riley (1861)
"H 274 Annulment of the freedom of Apprentices in the Craft of the Tailors I 151
Ordinance of the Tailors Horn 264 Of cappers, ..."
4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1875)
"... says they are called by the Low Dutch ' cappers,' for reasons I have mentioned
above. But perhaps the beet treatise on the Jacobin is Moore, 1735, ..."
5. The Antiquities of Bridgnorth: With ... Notices of the Town and Castle by George Bellett (1856)
"... she mentions Bridgnorth, as a place where the company of cappers used to
flourish; * which seems to indicate that the people now enjoyed a considerable ..."
6. Two Coventry Corpus Christi plays: 1. The shearmen and taylor's pageant, re by Hardin Craig (1902)
"Sh. speaks of a very curious book of accounts belonging to the cappers' company
which ... In 1529 also by act of leet, the cappers had been authorised to 10 ..."
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