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Tip, as a hat
Answer for the clue "Tip, as a hat ", 4 letters:
doff
Alternative clues for the word doff
Word definitions for doff in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., contraction of do off , preserving the original sense of do as "put." At the time of Johnson's Dictionary [1755] the word was "obsolete, and rarely used except by rustics," but it was saved from extinction (along with don ) by Sir Walter Scott. ...
Usage examples of doff.
The General reined in, doffed his bicorne hat, then cast a cold glance at Spears and Sharpe.
Terence said and doffed his boater, which unfortunately still had a good deal of water in the brim.
With a quick jerk, Ruark doffed the hat and held it in both hands before him like a bondslave suddenly confronted by his master.
It would be well that you should doff camail and greaves, Sir Nigel, for, by the black rood!
Quantrill quickly doffed his helmet, pressed its detent, let the visor and occipital segment slide into their nested positions.
He dropped the gloves on the table beside her and, doffing his cloak, settled himself in a chair on her right.
At once the room emptied and everyone began to gather, doffing their hats, even Mrs.
Guiscard, doffing his helmet for the coolness and hanging it on his saddle bow.
Kahn and Freer refused to show and Schacht finally beat her but doffed his cap.
He doffed the ghillie suit and leaned against a boulder, in full view of the group in the distance.
The recluses were stupefied when I told them that the fat priest was Cardinal Bernis, as they had an idea that a cardinal can never doff the purple.
Through the imitations of mist, gold webs glittered and doffed to a hexatonic melody.
Finding Ali awaiting them, he retreated to the dressing room, where he doffed his clothes and donned the kaftan his wife had made for him.
He turned back to Tomochichi, who was doffing his matchcoat, revealing the dark wings tattooed on his chest and torso.
The firelight gleamed from the polished skin of Duodecimus Munger, who had doffed the formal toga and assumed the simple loincloth of the jungle.