capcaset (kapkas)

A case for containing caps, collars, or other articles of apparel; a small traveling-case. In the seventeenth century it seems to have become a receptacle for papers, money, etc. A capcase for your linen and your plate. IMG:content-3080.png:[blocks in formation] = N. and Q., 6th ser., X. 422. Icel. kapall , capull = Ir. capull , capal , caval . cab all us , a horse: see cabal2 and cheval .] A horse. And gaf hym capeles to hws cart. Piers Plowman (C), xxii. 333. Bothe hey and cart and eek his caples thre. Chaucer, Friar's Tale, 1. 256.