Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One whose occupation is the manufacture, selling, or repair of hats.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A state of confusion.
- noun A confused heap.
- noun A maker or seller of hats.
- noun In mining, a miner who works alone, or “under his own hat.”
- noun Violently angry.
- To gather in a heap; collect in a crowd.
- To entangle.
- To expose to danger; harass; trouble; weary; wear out.
- To shatter; batter.
- To speak with thick and confused utterance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To tire or worry; -- with
out . - noun One who makes or sells hats.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who makes, sells, or repairs
hats .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes and sells hats
Etymologies
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Examples
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A man without a mate was a "hatter" -- "his hat covers his family".
Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894
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(The expression "Mad as a hatter" comes from the damage done by exposure to the fumes of mercury.
What Is It? Game 114 2009
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(The expression "Mad as a hatter" comes from the damage done by exposure to the fumes of mercury.
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The hatter was the man whom the flower vendor remembered seeing a few days before, prowling around the Aldaya mansion.
The Shadow of the Wind Zafon, Carlos Ruiz 2001
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Vigilant and obnoxiously interfering, the policeman has a long and curiously curved beak, designed for probing into the affairs of crabs, and unless the "hatter" has hastily stopped the mouth of its shaft with
My Tropic Isle 1887
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Then for two or three years he worked as a "hatter" (i.e., single-handed) in various tin-mining districts of the New England district.
The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884
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But the first friend he asked suggested that the word 'hatter' was not wanted, because the rest of the sentence showed that Thomson was a hatter.
Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873
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"hatter," a man of some means, who left a wife and at least two children in Holland when he embarked for America.
The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete Azel Ames 1876
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Mad hatter Dappy's solo single topped the charts – the 11th British act in succession to have a No 1 in the UK.
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In a later era, World War II, my mother worked for a hatter in Calgary.
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