kapater, noun

/kəˈpɑːtə(r)/
Forms:
caparter, capaterShow more Also caparter, capater, carparter, kaparter, kirpater.
Origin:
Afrikaans, Dutch, PortugueseShow more Afrikaans, from Dutch kapater (from capade eunuch, adaptation of Portuguese capado castrated).
A castrated goat. Also attributive.
1833 Graham’s Town Jrnl 20 June 1On Saturday morning next, on the Market, will be sold..24 he Goats, (Capaters,) 44 she Goats.
1838 J. Collett Diary. I. 17 JulyRode this Evg to Vandevyfers to purchase Caparter Bucks.
1841 B. Shaw Memorials 126She kindly invited us to supper, for which she had the head of a large Kirpater Bok. [Source Note: Goat.]
a1862 J. Ayliff Jrnl of ‘Harry Hastings’ (1963) 77He said he was anxious to get some breeding stock of goats...Five were a large kind of goat; he said that the Dutchman told him that they were of the ‘Carparter’ breed of goats.
1870 H.H. Dugmore Reminisc. of Albany Settler 22So were the hamels and kapaters gradually gathered together for the return journey, sometimes (it has been waggishly asserted) under the idea that they would make excellent breeding stock!
1897 E. Glanville Tales from Veld 228One of the biggest goats — a great blue ‘Kapater,’ with long beard, massive horns.
1899 Natal Agric. Jrnl 31 Mar. 3‘Kapaters’ (wether goats) is a useful word.
1911 J.H. Smith in Farmer’s Weekly 4 Oct. 130Can you give me a good remedy for goats (kapaters) that cannot pass their urine, as I have every year about 5 or 6 kapaters that cannot do so.
1932 Grocott’s Daily Mail 13 Jan. 120 Angora Kapaters 60 Angora Goats.
1955 L.G. Green Karoo 142A dignified kapater at the head of a long procession of the sheep bound for the kraal. The kapater, of course, is a castrated goat; and a well-trained kapater is the key to easy management of sheep.
1968 F.C. Metrowich Frontier Flames 45One poor farmer decided to go in for breeding goats...Proudly he returned to his location with them, only to be informed by a more knowledgeable friend that they were all kapater!
1970 D.M. McMaster Informant, Cathcart, Eastern CapeHamels (sheep), kapaters (goats), and tollies (young cattle). The first and second are Afrikaans, the third Xhosa. Curious that all the terms used for castrated males; for all the others the ordinary English words are used. The only place I have ever seen the word ‘wethers’ is on the Income Tax form!
1986 Grocott’s Mail 13 June 3He said he would like to import a good ram, ‘then if they do the breeding, I’ll buy the kapaters for hair’.
1988 Farmer’s Weekly Jan. 70Golden Valley...Merino ewes R125,50, Angora kapaters R72,50, Boergoat kapaters R159.
A castrated goat. Also attributive.
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