capsheaf

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After Mr. Roosevelt signed, Mr. Cummings observed that this measure "puts the capsheaf" on Mr. Roosevelt's long fight for court reform.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the capsheaf come about a year ago, when Nancy had a smart little sum o' money left her,—nigh onto a hunderd dollars.

From Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life by Brown, Alice

But once they got the place, 'twas aisy to see that Dick meant to get rid o' Caleb, an' the capsheaf was put last year, about his Dog, old Turk.

From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Seton, Ernest Thompson

But this is the capsheaf of all his didoes.

From Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway by Emerson, Alice B.

Belgium herself is the capsheaf atrocity of the war.

From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)