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Definition of Cocked hat
1. Noun. Hat with opposing brims turned up and caught together to form points.
Definition of Cocked hat
1. Noun. A hat with the brim turned up to form two or three points; a bicorn or tricorn ¹
2. Noun. (nautical) The triangular space formed by the intersection of the position lines on a chart determined by plotting three bearings; the approximate position of the ship ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocked Hat
Literary usage of Cocked hat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1845)
"There is no doubt that the flat cocked hat, the small three-cornered pinched hat
of the days of Louis XIV. and Louis XV., ..."
2. Songs and Satires by Edgar Lee Masters (1916)
"THE cocked hat Would that some one would knock Mr. Bryan into a cocked hat.
— WOODROW WILSON. It ain't really a hat at all, Ed: You know that, don't you ? ..."
3. Hoyle's Games: Containing the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games, with by Edmond Hoyle (1887)
"cocked hat Is played by placing three pins up; the two quarter are outer, and
the head centre pins. In many other games, strength and chance may sometimes ..."
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