Crossword clues for boater
boater
- Wide-brimmed hat
- Stiff straw hat
- Yachtsman, e.g
- One who goes sailing
- One making a wake
- Flat-top straw hat
- Yacht owner
- Traditional barbershop quartet hat
- Topper for a barbershop quartet member
- One punting, e.g
- One out on the lake, e.g
- One leaving a wake, perhaps
- One creating a wake
- Hat style
- Flat-topped straw hat
- Amateur captain
- One punting, e.g.
- Straw hat
- Yachtsman or hat
- Summer headgear
- One on board an outboard
- Yachtsman, e.g.
- It typically has a ribbon around its crown
- Summer hat
- A stiff straw hat with a flat crown
- Gondolier, e.g
- Summer topper
- Heartless braggart and sailor
- Hat type
- Wake maker
- Regatta entrant
- Flat-topped hat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) Someone who travels by boat. 2 (context nautical English) One who works on a boat, especially as captain. 3 A straw hat, very stiff, with a flat brim and crown.
WordNet
Wikipedia
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A boater (also straw boater, basher, skimmer, cady, katie, canotier, somer, sennit hat, or in Japan, can-can hat) is a kind of men's formal summer hat.
It is normally made of stiff sennit straw and has a stiff flat crown and brim, typically with a solid or striped grosgrain ribbon around the crown. Boaters were popular as casual summer headgear in the late 19th century and early 20th century, especially for boating or sailing, hence the name. They were supposedly worn by FBI agents as a sort of unofficial uniform in the pre- war years. It was also worn by women, often with hatpins to keep it in place. Nowadays they are rarely seen except at sailing or rowing events, period theatrical and musical performances (e.g. barbershop music) or as part of old-fashioned school uniforms. Since 1952, the straw boater hat has been part of the uniform of the Princeton University Band, notably featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated Magazine in October, 1955. Recently, soft, thin straw hats with the approximate shape of a boater have been in fashion among women.
Inexpensive foam or plastic skimmers are sometimes seen at political rallies in the United States.
In the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa the boater is still a common part of the school uniform in many boys' schools, such as at Harrow School, Shore School, Brisbane Boys' College, Knox Grammar School, Maritzburg College, South African College School, St John's College (Johannesburg, South Africa), Wynberg Boys' High School, Parktown Boys' High School and numerous Christian Brothers schools (CCB).
The boater may also be seen worn by the "carreiros" of Madeira, the drivers of the traditional wicker toboggans carrying visitors from the parish church at Monte (Funchal) down towards Funchal centre.
Being made of straw, the boater was and is generally regarded as a warm-weather hat. In the days when all men wore hats when out of doors, "Straw Hat Day", the day when men switched from wearing their winter hats to their summer hats, was seen as a sign of the beginning of summer. The exact date of Straw Hat Day might vary slightly from place to place. For example, in Philadelphia, it was May 15; at the University of Pennsylvania, it was the second Saturday in May.
The boater is a fairly formal hat, equivalent in formality to the Homburg, and so is correctly worn either in its original setting with a blazer, or in the same situations as a Homburg, such as a smart lounge suit, or with black tie. John Jacob Astor IV was known for wearing such hats. Actors Harold Lloyd and Maurice Chevalier were also famous for their trademark boater hats.
Usage examples of "boater".
The portmanteau, et al, were scattered around me, along with my boater, which had fallen off when I dived for the net.
He was dressed like I was, in white flannels and slightly crooked mustache, and was carrying his boater in his hand.
Terence said and doffed his boater, which unfortunately still had a good deal of water in the brim.
I opened the carpetbag, took out the boater, shut the bag and carried it back into the circle.
I set the bag down and put the boater on at a jaunty angle that would have made Lord Peter proud.
Then, as showtime neared, they returned to the ship, where Tojo donned his candy-striped jacket and straw boater, and Flint had a couple of lukewarm beers and a sandwich.
The door was opened by a tall, handsome man wearing a boater, white shirt and slacks as if about to go rowing in spite of the cold weather.
The manager wore a greasy boater and snickered through an overbite stained from cigarettes and tea.
Mayor wants to issue a press release warning boaters to stay off the water.
Tyler left them, went back to the cattle boat for his gear, this time looking around at all the different kinds of straw hats there were, boaters, big raggedy ones, lightweight panamas with black bands that looked pretty good.
Purple satin kerchiefs were tied around their necks and debonair straw boaters were rakishly angled on top of their heads.
Straw boaters sat perkily on the heads of office girls, and the hems of their long skirts swirled around their ankles.
Giant rogue barracudas are leaping from the sea to mangle unsuspecting boaters, then flopping back into the water to resume their diabolical stalk.
Purple satin kerchiefs were tied around their necks and debonair straw boaters were rakishly angled on top of their heads.
Doing it on a Sunday, when the waters off Key Biscayne are full of innocent boaters, is just plain reckless.