captaine
See also: cap'taine
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]captaine (plural captaines)
- Obsolete spelling of captain.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21:
- Their captaine there they cruelly found kild.