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Minuteman's hat
Answer for the clue "Minuteman's hat ", 7 letters:
tricorn
Alternative clues for the word tricorn
Word definitions for tricorn in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points [syn: tricorne ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In mathematics , the tricorn , sometimes called the Mandelbar set , is a fractal defined in a similar way to the Mandelbrot set , but using the mapping z ↦ z̄ + c instead of z ↦ z + c used for the Mandelbrot set. It was introduced by W. D. Crowe, R. Hasson, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having three horns or similar projections alt. 1 A three-sided hat with the brim turned up 2 (context mathematics English) A three-horned fractal n. 1 A three-sided hat with the brim turned up 2 (context mathematics English) A three-horned fractal
Usage examples of tricorn.
Puffing on a pipe, his tricorn hat planted carelessly over a perruque that had seen better days, he watched intently the slow progress of timber barges as they sailed down the canal in the direction of Dordrecht.
They wore black capes and tricorn hats, and on their faces low white masks, beaked, like birds of prey: the bauta, the carnival costume of the eighteenth century.
There were several examples of the plain white bauta, some complete with tricorn and long black veil.
He purchased a beaver hat but were scandalized when he refused every tricorn they showed him as well as the wigs to wear beneath them.
Her hair is woven like a cloud over the silver tricorn Night Moon Crown in the Primal Daybreak, and then allowed to flow freely down her back like an ebony waterfall.
All were white, many drunk, faces sweat-shiny under tricorn hats and mob caps.
The mining team had briefly entertained the idea of living in caves after realizing their prefabs had no chance against the tricorns, but the bloodworms had ended that hope.
In their self-defense killing of tricorns, the miners were apparently causing a serious threat to the Houses' main food supply.
If the exploration team had goofed on their analysis of the tricorns, they had missed the Houses completely, and it had cost seven lives before anyone figured out what was happening.
Cardman Tan had been the Number Three man of the mining team before the tricorns and Houses had taken their massive toll.
Theoretically, more tricorns meant more food for all the Houses scattered among the hills—but only if the bull-sized beasts came within sniffing range of the odor lures the Houses used.
If the tricorns chose instead to hound the men at the mine two kilometers away, there wasn't a solitary thing the Houses could do about it.
They'll have the knowledge and equipment to build us homes that the tricorns can't destroy—maybe even find a way to keep the tricorns away from us without having to kill them.
As the morning passed and temperatures rose, the tricorns began to congregate around the mine.
If we can supply live tricorns for your food, will you let us live here until our ship comes?