caper3 (kaper)

[= G. kaper = F. capre, The trade into the Straight can neither be secured by our own convoys, nor by the French fleets in the Mediterranean, from the Dutch capers . Sir W. Temple , To the Duke of Ormond, Works, I. 122. capibara having a wedge-shaped shell gaping at the broad end: the largest of British bivalves. [Local at Plymouth in England.]