Crossword clues for capper
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Capper \Cap"per\, n.
One whose business is to make or sell caps.
A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers. [Slang, U. S.]
An instrument for applying a percussion cap to a gun or cartridge.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One that caps. 2 A device or person that applies caps, as to bullets or bottles. 3 A person that makes or sells caps. 4 A finale.
Wikipedia
Capper is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andy Capper (born 1973), English journalist
- Arthur Capper (1865–1951), American politician
- Charles Capper, American historian
- Charles Capper (politician) (1822–1869), British Member of Parliament
- Edmund Capper (1906–1998), English bishop
- Freddy Capper (1891–1955), English footballer
- Gavin Capper is a fictional character on the soap opera Shortland Street
- Jack Capper (1931–2009), Welsh footballer
- John Capper (1861–1955), senior British Army officer
- Stewart Henbest Capper (1859–1925), Scottish architect
- Thompson Capper (1863–1915), senior British Army officer
- Warwick Capper (born 1963), Australian rules footballer
- William Capper (1856–1934), senior British Army officer
Usage examples of "capper".
Small columns under Crabbe, Capper, Wyndham, Nickall, and Lund, were continually on the move, with little to show for it save an ever-widening area of settled country in their rear.
That would just be the capper on a life that owes a tremendous debt to Trek.
Mabel Homer case, the Muswell Hill schoolgirl, you knowthat man Capper was extraordinary.
The capper on the miserable day was his aunt, his competent, clever, selfless, damn-her-to-nine-hells aunt.
Behrman and Genslinger and Shelgrim and the whole gang of thieves of you-- you'll wake this State of California up some of these days by going just one little bit too far, and there'll be an election of Railroad Commissioners of, by, and for the people, that'll get a twist of you, my bunco-steering friend--you and your backers and cappers and swindlers and thimble-riggers, and smash you, lock, stock, and barrel.
As a matter of factmy last caseI don't know whether you read about itthe Mabel Homer case, the Muswell Hill schoolgirl, you knowthat man Capper was extraordinary.
The wagons were destroyed, but the Boers were driven off by the arrival of Crabbe's column, followed by those of Capper and Lund.
Mincin is invited to an evening party with his dear friends the Martins, where he meets his dear friends the Cappers, and his dear friends the Watsons, and a hundred other dear friends too numerous to mention.
The fleshers and brewers and smiths and weavers and skinners and saddlers and salters and cappers and masons and cutlers and fletchers and plasterers and armourers and porters and water carriers, and the one-eyed man who had called at Bogle House selling fumigating pans.
It was lined with green baize and there were little fitted compartments that held a wadcutter, a pewter powderflask, cleaning jags, a patent pewter capper.
The capper was Lee donating 200 scoots to a leper ministry priest he met in a bar, buying drinks for the house, then driving to Ensenada.