"cappabar" meaning in English

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          "ref": "Burton, Alfred (1818) The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy, London: Methuen and Co., page 209",
          "text": "If e'er the Fortune of the war\nGave him a Prize, he'd cap a bar\nLike blazes--but stand clear! that elf\nWho dared to steal besides himself."
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          "text": "Patrick O'Brian, *The Mauritius Command.*\ndisposing of His Majesty's property was an immemorial practice among His Majesty's servants … and in the Navy it went by the name of cappabar."
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        "a misappropriation of government property; embezzlement or fraud carried out in the management of a ship."
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        "(nautical, obsolete) a misappropriation of government property; embezzlement or fraud carried out in the management of a ship."
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          "word": "capperbar"
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          "word": "cape bar"
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      "word": "cape bar"
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