n. A circular covering for the shoulders and adjacent parts, either separate or attached to the top of a garment, as that of a gown or an overcoat.n. A short circular garment hanging from the shoulders, worn for protection against the weather.n. The coping of a wall.n. plural Ears of corn broken off in thrashing.n. A piece of land jutting into a sea or a lake beyond the adjoining coast-line.n. [capitalized] A wine resembling sherry or canary, from the Cape of Good Hope.Nautical, to keep a course; head or point: as, how does she cape?n. In England, a judicial writ, now abolished, used in proceedings by the king or a feudal lord to recover land on the default of a tenant: called cape from its initial word.To gaze; gape.n. A Cape diamond.