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Caple vs Capel - What's the difference?

caple | capel | Alternative forms |

Caple is an alternative form of capel.


As nouns the difference between caple and capel

is that caple is (obsolete except in dialects) a horse while capel is a horse or capel can be (mining) a composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.

caple

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete except in dialects) a horse
  • :* Late 14th century': ‘Herkne, my broþer, herkne, by þy feiþ! / Herestow nat how þat þe cartere seiþ? / Hent it anon, for he haþ yeve it þee,/ Boþe hey and cart, and eek his '''caples þre.’ — Geoffrey Chaucer, ''The Friar's Tale

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    capel

    English

    Alternative forms

    * caple

    Etymology 1

    From Latin caballus, via Icelandic.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a horse
    • (Chaucer)
    (Holland)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (mining) A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.

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