SHOVEL HAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shovel hat mean? 

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

1. a stiff broad-brimmed hat with the brim turned up at the sides and projecting in front; worn by some clergymen in Britain

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOVEL HAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stiff broad-brimmed hat with the brim turned up at the sides and projecting in front; worn by some clergymen in Britain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

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

 Context examples 

Then came a picture of a cheerful and corpulent ecclesiastic in a shovel hat, sitting opposite a very thin European, and the inscription: "Lunch with Fra Cristofero at Rosario."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)