Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Cápr-a, s. f. dim. Cápr-étta, Cápr-ettína, Cápr-ína,
1. a shegoat.Essere dove le capre non cozzano, to be in prison. Chi ha capre, ha corna, no sweet without sweat. Cavalcare la — inverso il chino, to rush headlong into danger; 2. (astr. t.)Capricornus, the goat; 3. instrument of torture;4. buttress, prop, shore.
Florio: a worlde of wordes, or most copious, dictionarie in Italian and English
capra: any kinde of Goate. Also a kind of racke or torture. Also a skid or such engine to mount and raise great Ordinance withall.
