'Flat cap' definitions:

Definition of 'flat cap'

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noun
A flat woolen cap with a stiff peak [syn: cloth cap, flat cap]

Definition of 'Flat cap'

From: GCIDE
  • Cap \Cap\ (k[a^]p), n. [OE. cappe, AS. c[ae]ppe, cap, cape, hood, fr. LL, cappa, capa; perhaps of Iberian origin, as Isidorus of Seville mentions it first: "Capa, quia quasi totum capiat hominem; it. capitis ornamentum." See 3d Cape, and cf. 1st Cope.]
  • 1. A covering for the head; esp. (a) One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys; (b) One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants; (c) One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The top, or uppermost part; the chief. [1913 Webster]
  • Thou art the cap of all the fools alive. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A respectful uncovering of the head. [1913 Webster]
  • He that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Zool.) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use; as: (a) (Arch.) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate. (b) Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament. (c) (Naut.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope. (d) A percussion cap. See under Percussion. (e) (Mech.) The removable cover of a journal box. (f) (Geom.) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap. [1913 Webster]
  • Cap of a cannon, a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry; -- now called an apron.
  • Cap in hand, obsequiously; submissively.
  • Cap of liberty. See Liberty cap, under Liberty.
  • Cap of maintenance, a cap of state carried before the kings of England at the coronation. It is also carried before the mayors of some cities.
  • Cap money, money collected in a cap for the huntsman at the death of the fox.
  • Cap paper. (a) A kind of writing paper including flat cap, foolscap, and legal cap. (b) A coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold commodities.
  • Cap rock (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore, generally of barren vein material.
  • Flat cap, cap See Foolscap.
  • Forage cap, the cloth undress head covering of an officer of soldier.
  • Legal cap, a kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets which have the fold at the top or "narrow edge."
  • To set one's cap, to make a fool of one. (Obs.) --Chaucer.
  • To set one's cap for, to try to win the favor of a man with a view to marriage. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Flat cap'

From: GCIDE
  • Flat \Flat\ (fl[a^]t), a. [Compar. Flatter (fl[a^]t"r[~e]r); superl. Flattest (fl[a^]t"t[e^]st).] [Akin to Icel. flatr, Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G. fl["o]tz stratum, layer.]
  • 1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. [1913 Webster]
  • Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed. [1913 Webster]
  • What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • I feel . . . my hopes all flat. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. [1913 Webster]
  • A large part of the work is, to me, very flat. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition. [1913 Webster]
  • How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
  • Syn: flat-out. [1913 Webster]
  • Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat. --Marston. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Mus.) (a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat. (b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. (Golf) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft; -- said of a club. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 11. (Gram.) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix, or an infinitive without the sign to. Many flat adverbs, as in run fast, buy cheap, are from AS. adverbs in -["e], the loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives. Some having forms in ly, such as exceeding, wonderful, true, are now archaic. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 12. (Hort.) Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain fruits. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • Flat arch. (Arch.) See under Arch, n., 2. (b).
  • Flat cap, cap paper, not folded. See under Paper.
  • Flat chasing, in fine art metal working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots and lines made with a punching tool. --Knight.
  • Flat chisel, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing.
  • Flat file, a file wider than its thickness, and of rectangular section. See File.
  • Flat nail, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a flat, thin head, larger than a tack. --Knight.
  • Flat paper, paper which has not been folded.
  • Flat rail, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar spiked to a longitudinal sleeper.
  • Flat rods (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods, for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance. --Raymond.
  • Flat rope, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting; gasket; sennit.
  • Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a wide, flat band. --Knight.
  • Flat space. (Geom.) See Euclidian space.
  • Flat stitch, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- {Flat tint} (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade.
  • To fall flat (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. [1913 Webster]
  • Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord Erskine. [1913 Webster]

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