watch cap

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noun

U.S. Navy. a dark-blue, knitted woolen cap with a turned-up cuff worn by enlisted personnel on duty in cold weather.

any wool or woollike cap resembling this and sold commercially in various colors.

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Origin of watch cap

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby watch cap

Watauga, watch, watchable, watch and ward, watchband, watch cap, watchcase, watch chain, Watch Committee, watchdog, watcher

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How to use watch cap in a sentence

Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
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People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.
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I watch every episode alone on my couch and I just sit there and laugh, and laugh.
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Each CAP, also known as an “orbit,” consists on four aircraft.
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In fact, Clark fell back first from her blows, losing his cap, tie, and badge in the melee.
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I seized the opportunity to watch what I supposed would be a most interesting interview, from behind a curtain.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
At once cover the mouth of the tube with a filter-paper cap moistened with saturated aqueous solution of silver nitrate (1:1).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
He produced a watch and studied it frowningly, then dismissed us and the recital of our troubles with a ponderous gesture.
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With horror she had heard her brother addressed by a disreputable costermonger in a mangy fur cap, as "Old pal."
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
He is a hypochondriac now and would keep a close watch on his heir's health and habits; you may be sure of that.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton

British Dictionary definitions for watch cap

watch cap

noun

a knitted navy-blue woollen cap worn by seamen in cold weather

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