hat
/hæt/ noun A1- A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
- A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
- Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
- The lottery or draw itself. · We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.
- A hat switch.
- The circumflex symbol.
- The caret symbol ^.
- User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
Plural hats
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They made his hat and boots and clothes into a small bundle and threw it into the top branches of a tall tree.
So saying I raised my hat and went upon my way, leaving them still seated behind that concealing hedge.
His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons.
When the young man on board saw this person approach, he left his station by the pilot, and, hat in hand, leaned over the ship’s bulwarks.
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