different between caplin vs capelin

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caplin (plural caplins)

caplin (plural caplins)

The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass that connect the handle and swingel.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)

Borrowed from Middle French capelan, from Provençal and Old Occitan capelan, from Late Latin cappell?nus (“chaplain”). Doublet of chaplain.

capelin (plural capelins or capelin)

Mallotus villosus, a type of smelt found in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
- 1983, Bodil Kaalund, Kenneth Tindall (translator), The Art of Greenland: Sculpture, Crafts, Painting, page 161,
  The birds are spread - so that we can see what they are like; and the men catching capelins are elevated up out of the umiak, where they practically float on the gunwale, so that we can perceive that they are the main figures and see their work-movements (fig. 250).

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