Word Meanings - BILLYCOCKBILLYCOCKHAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake. "The undignified billycocks and pantaloons of the West." B. H. Chamberlain. Little acquiesced, and Ransome disguised him in a beard, and a loose set of clothes, and a billicock hat. Charles Reade.

• CROWNSAW
  A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion. Note: The trephine was the first of the class of crownsaws. Knight.
• Chamberlainship
  Office of a chamberlain.
• Crownpiece
  A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle.
• Rounded
  of Round
• Roundness
  The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc.
• CROWNSIDE
  See Crown office.
• Charles's Wain
  The group of seven stars, commonly called the Dipper, in the constellation Ursa Major, or Great Bear. See Ursa major, under Ursa.
• Crown-post
  Same as King-post.
• Rounding
  of Round
• Roundridge
  To form into round ridges by plowing.
• CROWNWHEEL
  A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.
• Acquiesced
  of Acquiesce
• Crown-saw
  A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion.
• Loosely
  In a loose manner.
• Roundabout
  Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech.
• Round-shouldered
  Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
• DISGUISEDLY
  In disguise.

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