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havelock

[ US /ˈhævˌɫɑk/ ]
[ UK /hˈe‍ɪvlɒk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a cloth covering for a service cap with a flap extending over the back of the neck to protect the neck from direct rays of the sun

How To Use havelock In A Sentence

  • Blecker, leaning over the gate, of how she had brought him a badly-made havelock that morning. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
  • Ordinary observation reveals, as literature has in general recorded, what Havelock Ellis has called the "greater affectability of the female mind. Human Traits and their Social Significance
  • He tried hard enough, but found that the pandy forces, while they didn't make best use of their overwhelming numbers, fought better defensive actions than anyone had expected, and Havelock got a couple of black eyes before he'd gone ten miles, and had to fall back. Fiancée
  • Many Civil War soldiers used their havelocks not as cap covers, but as coffee. strainers, dishcloths, or gun patches.
  • Havelock North topped the list with a 6-degree freeze, while Dannevirke was nipped by a 5.2-degree frost.
  • It poured as we stood on the forward deck; but my rubber blanket shed the rain, and my havelock, of the same material, kept it off head and neck. The Romance of the Civil War
  • Under them lay the color guard; the scabbarded swords of the colonel and his staff were stuck upright in the ground, and the blanket-swathed figures of the officers in poncho and havelock reposed close by. Special Messenger
  • She sewed for him, with the neatest of stitches, white gaiters, and a "havelock" for his cap - these afterward abandoned by authority as too shining marks for riflemen - tears dropping now and then upon her handiwork, but never a thought of telling Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay
  • The essayist and physician Havelock Ellis once suggested that thieves might be recognised by their low-lying ears and small heads.
  • Havelock Ellis [11] distinguishes, in addition to the primary and secondary sexual characters (as commonly defined), _tertiary sexual characters_, by which he denotes those differences between the sexes which do not attract our attention when we compare individual members of the two sexes, but which become noticeable when we compare the average male with the average female type. The Sexual Life of the Child
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