Word Meanings - CAPERER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances. The nimble capperer on the cord. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to CAPERER)

• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• NIMBLE
  Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift. Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails. Pope. Note: Nimble is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, nimble-footed, nimble-pinioned,
• NIMBLENESS
  The quality of being nimble; lightness and quickness in motion; agility; swiftness.
• ABOUT-SLEDGE
  The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.
• NIMBLESS
  Nimbleness. Spenser.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• STIRABOUT
  A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.
• MARABOUT
  A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.
• HAULABOUT
  A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.
• WHEREABOUT; WHEREABOUTS
  1. About where; near what or which place; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you meet him Note: In this sense, whereabouts is the common form. 2. Concerning which; about which. "The object whereabout they are conversant."
• GADABOUT
  A gadder
• HEREA-BOUT; HEREABOUTS
  1. About this place; in this vicinity. 2. Concerning this.
• KNOCKABOUT
  1. Marked by knocking about or roughness. 2. Of noisy and violent character. 3. Characterized by, or suitable for, knocking about, or traveling or wandering hither and thither. 4. That does odd jobs; -- said of a class of hands or laborers on
• FAR-ABOUT
  A going out of the way; a digression. Fuller.
• ROUSTABOUT
  A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs.
• RIGHT-ABOUT
  A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about. To send to the right-about, to cause to turn toward the opposite point or quarter; -- hence, of
• THEREABOUT; THEREABOUTS
  1. Near that place. 2. Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts. Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts. Shak. Some three months since, or thereabout. Suckling. 3. Concerning that; about that. What will
• WHIRLABOUT
  Something that whirls or turns about in a rapid manner; a whirligig.
• ROUNDABOUT
  1. Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech. We have taken a terrible roundabout road. Burke. 2. Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive. "Large, sound, roundabout sense." Locke.