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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hat with the brim turned up in two or three places, especially a three-cornered hat; a tricorn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of the game of bowls in which but three pins, placed at the angles of a triangle, are used.
- noun A note folded into a three-cornered shape.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A hat with the
brim turned up to form two or three points; abicorn ortricorn - noun nautical The
triangular space formed by theintersection of theposition lines on achart determined byplotting threebearings ; theapproximate position of theship
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hat with opposing brims turned up and caught together to form points
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chained_bear commented on the word cocked hat
The period term for what is often today called a tricorn or tricorner hat. Cocked hats can have two or three sides raised and pinned ("cocked"). They often feature an ornament of ribbon, sewn into a pleated disc with a button in the center, called a cockade.
February 20, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word cocked hat
My father never held a tennis racket or a golf club, and he couldn't kick a football or catch a swift pitch, but he bowled whenever he got a chance – tenpins, duckpins, candlepins, cocked hat, and quintet, a difficult game, the rules for which I was told he had helped to make up.
—James Thurber, 1952, 'Gentleman from Indiana', in The Thurber Album
July 18, 2008