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One whose business is to make or sell caps.

One who determines the conditions of a handicap.

A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

An instrument for removing an explode cap from a cartridge shell.

See Capper, a plant, 2.

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

called because enjoined to be worn by a statute, dated in 1571, in behalf of the trade of cappers. [Obs.] Halliwell. -- Statute fair. See Statute, n., 3, above. -- Statute labor, a definite amount of labor required for the public service in making roads, bridges, etc., as in certain English colonies. -- Statute merc…