cocked hatn.

Brit.

/ˌkɒkt ˈhat/,

/ˈkɒkt ˌhat/, U.S.

/ˌkɑkt ˈhæt/,

/ˈkɑkt ˌhæt/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cocked adj.³, hat n.

Etymology: < cocked adj.³ + hat n. Compare slightly earlier cock n.⁸

a. Originally: a hat with the brim permanently turned up; esp. one with the brim turned up on three sides, a tricorne. Now: a brimless triangular hat pointed at the front and back and rising to a point at the crown, worn chiefly by senior figures in the army or navy or as part of a ceremonial dress.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > garment or dress > headgear

hood1362

cap (also hat) of maintenancec1475

cocked hat1673

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > with a brim > with upturned brim

cocked hat1673

scraper1818

pork-pie hat1860

pork pie1861

Champagne Charlie1867

Breton1941

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > tricorn

three-cocked hat1813

cocked hat1859

tricorn1876

1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master Epil. Periwigs and broad cock'd hats.

1741 S. Richardson Lett. Particular Friends xc. 125 A cock'd Hat, a lac'd Jacket, a Fop's Peruke, what strange Metamorphoses do they make!

1808 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 5 Mar. 379 Among the heavy dragoons cocked hats are abolished, among the light they are just coming into vogue.

1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany ii. 11 Policemen with cocked hats like those of staff-officers.

1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember I. xvi. 335 The emperor..violently tossed his cocked hat into the corner of the room.

1912 A. Huxley Let. 13 May (1969) 42 The banner bearers..wear marvellous uniforms—usually consisting of a..sort of turbanny object or a cocked hat..white breeches and highly polished top-boots.

2012 Daily Tel. 13 Nov. 33/4 In his cutaway tailed tunic, cocked hat topped with regal ostrich plumes and a sword dangling from his waist, Hunt climbed into a red London taxi.

b. A shape into which a note, napkin, etc., is folded which is thought or intended to resemble a cocked hat; a note, napkin, etc., folded into such a shape.Cf. earlier cocked-hat-wise adv. at Derivatives.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > other ornamental objects

Stafford knot1552

cocked hat1835

bullen-nail1842

street jewellery1851

overdoor1873

Russian Easter egg1881

wally dug1904

1835 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz in Monthly Mag. Jan. 135 ‘I beg to deliver this note to you,’ said Watkins Tottle, producing the cocked hat.

1842 Bentley's Misc. Dec. 545 The napkins folded and twisted into cocked-hats, fans, roses, fools' caps, and all kinds of fanciful shapes.

1938 D. Smith Dear Octopus iii. i. 115 Dora. Quite. (She has been wildly folding napkins...) But there won't be any water-lilies. We'll have some nice, simple cocked hats.

1970 Kenosha (Wisconsin) News 19 June 16/3 A newspaper page may be folded into a cocked hat. This may be set over a newly transplanted tomato or pepper plant to shade it from the hot sun.

2003 D. Daniel White Rabbit 168 When the marines had folded the flag into a neat cocked hat and the chief of guard presented it to the fallen soldier's father, family members and friends went forward to lay flowers at the grave.

2. U.S. (The name of) a game similar to skittles, ninepins, etc., played with three pins set up in triangular position. Now historical and rare.

ΚΠ

1858 Southern Literary Messenger Nov. 351/1 His great strength compelled him to use the largest balls, even when playing ‘Cocked-Hat’.

1898 Silverton (Colorado) Standard 23 Apr. Geo. Kerr went back..thoroughly convinced that he can not play cocked hat a little bit.

1907 ‘M. Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 335 Next, we started cocked hat—that is to say, a triangle of three pins, the other seven being discarded.

1959 Independent-Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 22 Nov. (Mag.) 20/1 To get around the law which prohibited the game of ninepins..a game called cocked hat, which called for fewer pins, was substituted.

3. With reference to plotting a position, course, etc., on a chart: a triangular shape formed by three position lines that fail to intersect at a single point owing to error or inaccuracy.

ΚΠ

1920 J. E. Dumbleton Princ. & Pract. Aerial Navigation i. 13 Owing to small errors three position lines will rarely intersect at a point, but a small triangle is formed known as a ‘cocked hat’.

1998 Motor Boat & Yachting Jan. 128/1 A perfect fix is difficult to obtain. You are more likely to get a ‘cocked hat’ or area of uncertainty.

2012 M. Denny Sci. Navigation vii. 177 The probability of the ship being inside the cocked hat is 0.25, which means that there is a 75% chance that the ship is outside.

Phrases

colloquial (originally U.S.). to knock into a cocked hat and variants.

a. To injure or damage (someone or something) severely, irreparably, or beyond recognition; to maim or destroy in combat. Now somewhat rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > be useless for [verb (transitive)] > make useless

to knock into a cocked hat1830

disutilize1856

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > soundly

threshc1384

to knock the socks offa1529

thump1597

thrash1609

thwacka1616

capot1649

to beat to snuff1819

to knock into a cocked hat1830

to —— (the) hell out of1833

sledgehammer1834

rout1835

whop1836

skin1838

whip-saw1842

to knock (the) spots off1850

to make mincemeat of1853

to mop (up) the floor with1875

to beat pointless1877

to lick into fits1879

to take apart1880

to knock out1883

wax1884

contund1885

to give (a person) fits1885

to wipe the floor with1887

flatten1892

to knock (someone) for six1902

slaughter1903

slather1910

to hit for six1937

hammer1948

whomp1952

bulldozer1954

zilch1957

shred1966

tank1973

slam-dunk1975

beast1977

1830 Boston Courier 24 May 1/2 According to the Cracker Dictionary of Georgia, Mr. Webster must obsquatulate or be knocked into a cocked hat, by a ring-tailed roarer.

1843 W. T. Thompson Major Jones' Courtship vi. 25 Sumtimes Wolf would gether holt of him like he was gwine to swoller him whole and mash him all into a cocked hat.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Jan. 9/1 A frigate of the modern type would knock a fort armed with obsolete guns into a cocked hat.

1905 G. K. Chesterton Club of Queer Trades vi. 242 Basil sprang up..and with three blows like battering-rams knocked the footman into a cocked hat.

1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Oct. (Final ed.) b5 Dave Green, the former welterweight champion knocked into a cocked hat by Sugar Ray Leonard.., has begun a come-back.

b. To triumph over or get the better of (someone or something); to surpass or outdo comprehensively; to confound, thwart. Now chiefly British.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] > surpass or beat

whip1571

overmaster1627

to give (one) fifteen and a bisque1664

to beat (all) to nothing1768

beatc1800

bang1808

to beat (also knock) all to sticks1820

floga1841

to beat (a person, a thing) into fits1841

to beat a person at his (also her, etc.) own game1849

to knock (the) spots off1850

lick1890

biff1895

to give a stone and a beating to1906

to knock into a cocked hat1965

1837 Pawtucket Chron. & Rhode-Island & Mass. Advocate 16 June She has knocked me into a cocked hat with these black eyes of hers.

1898 A. M. Binstead Pink 'Un & Pelican xi. 235 Other ‘lags’ of my acquaintance..could beat his record into a cocked hat.

1940 Rural Amer. Oct. 5/1 A ruling..that no doctor who was not a graduate of an American medical college could practice in this state, knocked our hopes and plans into a cocked hat.

1965 Listener 26 Aug. 314/3 The splendid earthworks and engineering structures of the railways today..knock the M.1 into a cocked hat.

2011 Independent 21 May (Mag.) 22/3 They [sc. Richard and Judy] knocked all other sofa couples into a cocked hat, because they were for real.

Compounds

C1. As a modifier.

a. With the sense ‘wearing, or associated with the wearing of, cocked hats; relating to or involving those who wear cocked hats’. Cf. cocked-hatted adj. at Derivatives. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1841 W. A. Caruthers in Magnolia Jan. 271/1 (title) The knights of the golden horse-shoe: a traditionary tale of the cocked hat gentry in the Old Dominion.

1869 J. D. McCabe Paris by Sunlight & Gaslight i. xli. 595 The cocked-hat-gentlemen who guard the city.

1902 Daily Chron. 9 Jan. 3/3 Mr. Watson's story is in the mode of the eighteenth century, and for those who like cocked-hat stories is just the thing.

1947 S. H. Holbrook Story Amer. Railroads viii. 98 Not even the most hidebound of the cocked-hat men, the-old-days-were-better men, and the paid propagandists for canals and stagecoach lines..could stand up any longer and say that the steam roads were a passing fancy.

b. With the sense ‘resembling a cocked hat in shape; triangular’.With quots. 1846, 1886 cf. sense 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adjective] > triangular

three-corneredc1400

three-squaredc1400

three-squarec1450

triangle1474

triangled1486

triangular?1541

three-corner1548

trilater1570

trigonal1571

three-corned1584

three-sided1601

triangulated1610

triangulate1611

triform1621

triangulary1622

triquetrous1658

trilateral1660

triagonal1665

trigonic1788

cocked hat1846

heater-shaped1847

1846 C. Dickens Pictures from Italy 13 The napkins are folded in cocked-hat fashion.

1886 R. Broughton Dr. Cupid I. viii. 93 One of Lady Roupell's almost daily cocked-hat notes.

1935 Discovery Nov. 333/2 The early pottery lamps of the Ægean, Phœnicia, etc. (known to the British Museum as the ‘cocked-hat’ type..).

2000 C. Tudge In Mendel's Footnotes vi. 154 His [sc. Darwin's] ideas were hijacked by dull statisticians (like Galton and Pearson), with their cocked-hat curves of normal distribution and the rest.

C2.

† cocked-hat pelvis n. Medicine Obsolete a type of deformed pelvis having an aperture that is three-cornered or heart-shaped, typically seen in osteomalacia.

ΚΠ

1855 J. Wood in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 187/2 The form of pelvis resulting from this bend..has received more particularly the name of the cocked hat or rostrated pelvis.

1870 Lancet 30 July 150/1 The pelvis presented the deformity known as the ‘cocked-hat’ pelvis.

Derivatives

ˈcocked-hatted adj. wearing, or characterized by the wearing of, cocked hats.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing headgear > wearing a hat > types of

flat-headed1667

straw-hattedc1730

beavered1742

cocked-hatted1821

slouch-hatted1826

high-hatted1858

plug-hatted1869

sun-helmeted1886

pot-hatted1888

sou'-westered1891

cowboy-hatted1896

sombreroed1899

top hat1902

picture-hatted1906

bowler-hatted1909

sailor-hatted1909

tile-hatted1924

Stetsoned1935

trilbied1966

trilby-hatted1975

1821 Brit. Monitor 8 Apr. 8571/1 The undertaking..will terminate unsuccessfully and ludicrously, like their recent Cocked Hatted expedition to Brandenburgh House.

1909 R. H. Murray Around World with Taft v. 244 Launches were coming and going until dark with their brilliant loads of gold laced and cocked-hatted admirals, captains, commanders and generals.

2011 R. Hardman Our Queen i. 7 At Temple Bar..there was a formal welcome from the Lord Mayor and his panoply of fur-hooded, velvet-robed, cocked-hatted, sword-bearing sheriffs, aldermen and remembrancers.

† cocked-hat-wise adv. Obsolete rare in the manner of a cocked hat.In quots. with reference to folding a note, napkin, etc. Cf. sense 1b.

ΚΠ

1827 Monthly Mag. Nov. 509 The papers—which are not very jocose—run as follows: No. 1. A note, doubled cocked-hat-wise.—‘To Miss Hampson’.

1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 24 Mar. 514/2 A table napkin folded cocked-hat-wise.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	cocked hat
释义	cocked hatn. Brit. /ˌkɒkt ˈhat/, /ˈkɒkt ˌhat/, U.S. /ˌkɑkt ˈhæt/, /ˈkɑkt ˌhæt/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cocked adj.³, hat n. Etymology: < cocked adj.³ + hat n. Compare slightly earlier cock n.⁸ 1. a. Originally: a hat with the brim permanently turned up; esp. one with the brim turned up on three sides, a tricorne. Now: a brimless triangular hat pointed at the front and back and rising to a point at the crown, worn chiefly by senior figures in the army or navy or as part of a ceremonial dress. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > garment or dress > headgear hood1362 cap (also hat) of maintenancec1475 cocked hat1673 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > with a brim > with upturned brim cocked hat1673 scraper1818 pork-pie hat1860 pork pie1861 Champagne Charlie1867 Breton1941 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > tricorn three-cocked hat1813 cocked hat1859 tricorn1876 1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master Epil. Periwigs and broad cock'd hats. 1741 S. Richardson Lett. Particular Friends xc. 125 A cock'd Hat, a lac'd Jacket, a Fop's Peruke, what strange Metamorphoses do they make! 1808 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 5 Mar. 379 Among the heavy dragoons cocked hats are abolished, among the light they are just coming into vogue. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany ii. 11 Policemen with cocked hats like those of staff-officers. 1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember I. xvi. 335 The emperor..violently tossed his cocked hat into the corner of the room. 1912 A. Huxley Let. 13 May (1969) 42 The banner bearers..wear marvellous uniforms—usually consisting of a..sort of turbanny object or a cocked hat..white breeches and highly polished top-boots. 2012 Daily Tel. 13 Nov. 33/4 In his cutaway tailed tunic, cocked hat topped with regal ostrich plumes and a sword dangling from his waist, Hunt climbed into a red London taxi. b. A shape into which a note, napkin, etc., is folded which is thought or intended to resemble a cocked hat; a note, napkin, etc., folded into such a shape.Cf. earlier cocked-hat-wise adv. at Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > other ornamental objects Stafford knot1552 cocked hat1835 bullen-nail1842 street jewellery1851 overdoor1873 Russian Easter egg1881 wally dug1904 1835 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz in Monthly Mag. Jan. 135 ‘I beg to deliver this note to you,’ said Watkins Tottle, producing the cocked hat. 1842 Bentley's Misc. Dec. 545 The napkins folded and twisted into cocked-hats, fans, roses, fools' caps, and all kinds of fanciful shapes. 1938 D. Smith Dear Octopus iii. i. 115 Dora. Quite. (She has been wildly folding napkins...) But there won't be any water-lilies. We'll have some nice, simple cocked hats. 1970 Kenosha (Wisconsin) News 19 June 16/3 A newspaper page may be folded into a cocked hat. This may be set over a newly transplanted tomato or pepper plant to shade it from the hot sun. 2003 D. Daniel White Rabbit 168 When the marines had folded the flag into a neat cocked hat and the chief of guard presented it to the fallen soldier's father, family members and friends went forward to lay flowers at the grave. 2. U.S. (The name of) a game similar to skittles, ninepins, etc., played with three pins set up in triangular position. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1858 Southern Literary Messenger Nov. 351/1 His great strength compelled him to use the largest balls, even when playing ‘Cocked-Hat’. 1898 Silverton (Colorado) Standard 23 Apr. Geo. Kerr went back..thoroughly convinced that he can not play cocked hat a little bit. 1907 ‘M. Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 335 Next, we started cocked hat—that is to say, a triangle of three pins, the other seven being discarded. 1959 Independent-Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 22 Nov. (Mag.) 20/1 To get around the law which prohibited the game of ninepins..a game called cocked hat, which called for fewer pins, was substituted. 3. With reference to plotting a position, course, etc., on a chart: a triangular shape formed by three position lines that fail to intersect at a single point owing to error or inaccuracy. ΚΠ 1920 J. E. Dumbleton Princ. & Pract. Aerial Navigation i. 13 Owing to small errors three position lines will rarely intersect at a point, but a small triangle is formed known as a ‘cocked hat’. 1998 Motor Boat & Yachting Jan. 128/1 A perfect fix is difficult to obtain. You are more likely to get a ‘cocked hat’ or area of uncertainty. 2012 M. Denny Sci. Navigation vii. 177 The probability of the ship being inside the cocked hat is 0.25, which means that there is a 75% chance that the ship is outside. Phrases colloquial (originally U.S.). to knock into a cocked hat and variants. a. To injure or damage (someone or something) severely, irreparably, or beyond recognition; to maim or destroy in combat. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > be useless for [verb (transitive)] > make useless to knock into a cocked hat1830 disutilize1856 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > soundly threshc1384 to knock the socks offa1529 thump1597 thrash1609 thwacka1616 capot1649 to beat to snuff1819 to knock into a cocked hat1830 to —— (the) hell out of1833 sledgehammer1834 rout1835 whop1836 skin1838 whip-saw1842 to knock (the) spots off1850 to make mincemeat of1853 to mop (up) the floor with1875 to beat pointless1877 to lick into fits1879 to take apart1880 to knock out1883 wax1884 contund1885 to give (a person) fits1885 to wipe the floor with1887 flatten1892 to knock (someone) for six1902 slaughter1903 slather1910 to hit for six1937 hammer1948 whomp1952 bulldozer1954 zilch1957 shred1966 tank1973 slam-dunk1975 beast1977 1830 Boston Courier 24 May 1/2 According to the Cracker Dictionary of Georgia, Mr. Webster must obsquatulate or be knocked into a cocked hat, by a ring-tailed roarer. 1843 W. T. Thompson Major Jones' Courtship vi. 25 Sumtimes Wolf would gether holt of him like he was gwine to swoller him whole and mash him all into a cocked hat. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Jan. 9/1 A frigate of the modern type would knock a fort armed with obsolete guns into a cocked hat. 1905 G. K. Chesterton Club of Queer Trades vi. 242 Basil sprang up..and with three blows like battering-rams knocked the footman into a cocked hat. 1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Oct. (Final ed.) b5 Dave Green, the former welterweight champion knocked into a cocked hat by Sugar Ray Leonard.., has begun a come-back. b. To triumph over or get the better of (someone or something); to surpass or outdo comprehensively; to confound, thwart. Now chiefly British. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] > surpass or beat whip1571 overmaster1627 to give (one) fifteen and a bisque1664 to beat (all) to nothing1768 beatc1800 bang1808 to beat (also knock) all to sticks1820 floga1841 to beat (a person, a thing) into fits1841 to beat a person at his (also her, etc.) own game1849 to knock (the) spots off1850 lick1890 biff1895 to give a stone and a beating to1906 to knock into a cocked hat1965 1837 Pawtucket Chron. & Rhode-Island & Mass. Advocate 16 June She has knocked me into a cocked hat with these black eyes of hers. 1898 A. M. Binstead Pink 'Un & Pelican xi. 235 Other ‘lags’ of my acquaintance..could beat his record into a cocked hat. 1940 Rural Amer. Oct. 5/1 A ruling..that no doctor who was not a graduate of an American medical college could practice in this state, knocked our hopes and plans into a cocked hat. 1965 Listener 26 Aug. 314/3 The splendid earthworks and engineering structures of the railways today..knock the M.1 into a cocked hat. 2011 Independent 21 May (Mag.) 22/3 They [sc. Richard and Judy] knocked all other sofa couples into a cocked hat, because they were for real. Compounds C1. As a modifier. a. With the sense ‘wearing, or associated with the wearing of, cocked hats; relating to or involving those who wear cocked hats’. Cf. cocked-hatted adj. at Derivatives. Now rare. ΚΠ 1841 W. A. Caruthers in Magnolia Jan. 271/1 (title) The knights of the golden horse-shoe: a traditionary tale of the cocked hat gentry in the Old Dominion. 1869 J. D. McCabe Paris by Sunlight & Gaslight i. xli. 595 The cocked-hat-gentlemen who guard the city. 1902 Daily Chron. 9 Jan. 3/3 Mr. Watson's story is in the mode of the eighteenth century, and for those who like cocked-hat stories is just the thing. 1947 S. H. Holbrook Story Amer. Railroads viii. 98 Not even the most hidebound of the cocked-hat men, the-old-days-were-better men, and the paid propagandists for canals and stagecoach lines..could stand up any longer and say that the steam roads were a passing fancy. b. With the sense ‘resembling a cocked hat in shape; triangular’.With quots. 1846, 1886 cf. sense 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adjective] > triangular three-corneredc1400 three-squaredc1400 three-squarec1450 triangle1474 triangled1486 triangular?1541 three-corner1548 trilater1570 trigonal1571 three-corned1584 three-sided1601 triangulated1610 triangulate1611 triform1621 triangulary1622 triquetrous1658 trilateral1660 triagonal1665 trigonic1788 cocked hat1846 heater-shaped1847 1846 C. Dickens Pictures from Italy 13 The napkins are folded in cocked-hat fashion. 1886 R. Broughton Dr. Cupid I. viii. 93 One of Lady Roupell's almost daily cocked-hat notes. 1935 Discovery Nov. 333/2 The early pottery lamps of the Ægean, Phœnicia, etc. (known to the British Museum as the ‘cocked-hat’ type..). 2000 C. Tudge In Mendel's Footnotes vi. 154 His [sc. Darwin's] ideas were hijacked by dull statisticians (like Galton and Pearson), with their cocked-hat curves of normal distribution and the rest. C2. † cocked-hat pelvis n. Medicine Obsolete a type of deformed pelvis having an aperture that is three-cornered or heart-shaped, typically seen in osteomalacia. ΚΠ 1855 J. Wood in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 187/2 The form of pelvis resulting from this bend..has received more particularly the name of the cocked hat or rostrated pelvis. 1870 Lancet 30 July 150/1 The pelvis presented the deformity known as the ‘cocked-hat’ pelvis. Derivatives ˈcocked-hatted adj. wearing, or characterized by the wearing of, cocked hats. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing headgear > wearing a hat > types of flat-headed1667 straw-hattedc1730 beavered1742 cocked-hatted1821 slouch-hatted1826 high-hatted1858 plug-hatted1869 sun-helmeted1886 pot-hatted1888 sou'-westered1891 cowboy-hatted1896 sombreroed1899 top hat1902 picture-hatted1906 bowler-hatted1909 sailor-hatted1909 tile-hatted1924 Stetsoned1935 trilbied1966 trilby-hatted1975 1821 Brit. Monitor 8 Apr. 8571/1 The undertaking..will terminate unsuccessfully and ludicrously, like their recent Cocked Hatted expedition to Brandenburgh House. 1909 R. H. Murray Around World with Taft v. 244 Launches were coming and going until dark with their brilliant loads of gold laced and cocked-hatted admirals, captains, commanders and generals. 2011 R. Hardman Our Queen i. 7 At Temple Bar..there was a formal welcome from the Lord Mayor and his panoply of fur-hooded, velvet-robed, cocked-hatted, sword-bearing sheriffs, aldermen and remembrancers. † cocked-hat-wise adv. Obsolete rare in the manner of a cocked hat.In quots. with reference to folding a note, napkin, etc. Cf. sense 1b. ΚΠ 1827 Monthly Mag. Nov. 509 The papers—which are not very jocose—run as follows: No. 1. A note, doubled cocked-hat-wise.—‘To Miss Hampson’. 1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 24 Mar. 514/2 A table napkin folded cocked-hat-wise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1673
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