caboshed

caboshed
/keuh bosht"/, adj. Heraldry.
(of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
Also, cabossed /keuh bost"/, caboched, caboché.
[1565-75; var. of caboched, ptp. of ME caboche to behead (a deer) < AF cabocher, deriv. of caboche head; see CABBAGE1]

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