Crossword clues for cocked hat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cock \Cock\ (k[o^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cocked (k[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cocking.] [Cf. Gael. coc to cock.]
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To set erect; to turn up.
Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears.
--Gay.Dick would cock his nose in scorn.
--Swift. To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim.
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To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner.
They cocked their hats in each other's faces.
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To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation. Cocked hat.
A hat with large, stiff flaps turned up to a peaked crown, thus making its form triangular; -- called also three-cornered hat.
A game similar to ninepins, except that only three pins are used, which are set up at the angles of a triangle.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A hat with the brim turned up to form two or three points; a bicorn or tricorn 2 (context nautical English) 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 3 A game similar to ninepins, except that only three pins, arranged in a triangle, are used.
WordNet
n. hat with opposing brims turned up and caught together to form points
Usage examples of "cocked hat".
He still wore his old army boots, gray trousers and tunic with CSA brass buttons, but Magpie Maggie Hag had found for him somewhere a cocked hat, and stuck in it a huge plume that made him look as dandified as the notorious fops Stuart and Custer.
Clinton stepped forward, resplendent in cocked hat, blue and gold jacket, white breeches and sword and took the Sheikh's arm to steady him through the rest of the salute, and to prevent him stampeding back into the crazily rocking felucca where the oarsmen were in equal terror.
He had a presence, and a politician's knack of knocking all your best arguments into a cocked hat .
He clapped on his cocked hat, and struggled into the pea-jacket which Brown held for him.
The westerly wind still blew and bore with it today flurries of heavy rain, which hissed down on the surface of the river, roared on the tarpaulins of the wretched boat's crew, and rattled loudly on the sou'wester which Hornblower wore on his head while he sheltered his cocked hat under his boat cloak.
The black breeches and stockings, the epaulette and the best cocked hat, the sword and the mourning band.
He took off his cocked hat and wiped sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief that had been soaked in cologne water.
She could see two men there, one in a cocked hat and the other in a shako.
That was why he was paid four hundred and eighteen pounds and twelve shillings a year, and so he paced up and down, up and down, made conspicuous by his cocked hat and gilded epaulettes, and he tried to divide four hundred and eighteen pounds and twelve shillings by three hundred and sixty-five days and the Frenchmen aimed their muskets at him so that Chase walked a strip of deck that became ever more lumpy and ragged from bullet strikes.