capot

See also: Capot

English

Etymology

French

Noun

capot (plural capots)

  1. A winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Hoyle to this entry?)

Verb

capot (third-person singular simple present capots, present participle capotting, simple past and past participle capotted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To win all the tricks (from), when playing at piquet.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for capot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ka.po/

Noun

capot m (plural capots)

  1. bonnet (UK), hood (US)

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