Capot

n. [Fr. capot; être capot, to be balked, faire capot, to capot; Ger. caput, ruined, broken, either abbreviated from caput mortuum, q. v., or contracted from Heb. kappōreth, expiatory sacrifice, atonement, because the Jews, on their day of expiation, wanted to put their sins on a Gentile by saying, Be thou my kappōreth, i. e., die thou for me, for my expiation or reconciliation with God, which gradually became a sort of curse and of a more general application; hence, also, the Ger. capores, dead, ruined, broken.] A winning of all the tricks of cards at the game of piquet by either party of the players: it counts for forty points. Hoyle.