COCKED HAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cocked hat mean? 

• COCKED HAT (noun)
  The noun COCKED HAT has 1 sense:

1. hat with opposing brims turned up and caught together to form points

  Familiarity information: COCKED HAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCKED HAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hat with opposing brims turned up and caught together to form points

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cocked hat" is a kind of...):

chapeau; hat; lid (headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cocked hat"):

bicorn; bicorne (a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points)

tricorn; tricorne (cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points)

 Context examples 

After the reading came the lesson, which was a lively one, for Jo was in a gay mood that night, and the cocked hat kept her eyes dancing with merriment.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One of my last thoughts was of the captain, who had so often strode along the beach with his cocked hat, his sabre-cut cheek, and his old brass telescope.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I must acknowledge that I felt it difficult to picture him quite at his ease in the raiment proposed for him by his grateful little niece, and that I was particularly doubtful of the policy of the cocked hat; but I kept these sentiments to myself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I really believe, said he, I could be fool enough at this moment to undertake any character that ever was written, from Shylock or Richard III down to the singing hero of a farce in his scarlet coat and cocked hat.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Jo sat still, looking as if the fire had come to her, for her cheeks burned long after the cocked hat had turned to smoke and gone harmlessly up the chimney.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He made many attempts to induce me to consent to an exchange; at one time coming out with a fishing-rod, at another with a fiddle, at another with a cocked hat, at another with a flute.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It all grew out of a cocked hat, for one evening the Professor came in to give Jo her lesson with a paper soldier cap on his head, which Tina had put there and he had forgotten to take off.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“If I was ever to be a lady, I'd give him a sky-blue coat with diamond buttons, nankeen trousers, a red velvet waistcoat, a cocked hat, a large gold watch, a silver pipe, and a box of money.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She would like the relics of great people better, for I've seen her Napoleon's cocked hat and gray coat, his baby's cradle and his old toothbrush, also Marie Antoinette's little shoe, the ring of Saint Denis, Charlemagne's sword, and many other interesting things.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Lifting his hand to his head, the absent-minded Professor gravely felt and removed the little cocked hat, looked at it a minute, and then threw back his head and laughed like a merry bass viol.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)