Third-person singular present tense of caponize: he, she, or it surgically removes a rooster's testicles.
From caponize + -s (third-person singular suffix). The -s ending comes from Old English.
The verb form 'caponizes' appears regularly in agricultural manuals from the 1700s-1900s, showing how integrated this procedure was into everyday farming life.
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