cloth cap

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æp

Noun

cloth cap (plural cloth caps)

1. (UK) A man's flat woollen cap with a peak.
   • 1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 148:

     Our relief at Paris was a mécanicien looking like a Darnall "Grinder" in his cloth cap with a button on top - and no goggles either.

   • 2020 December 30, Tim Dunn, “The railway's mechanical marvels”, in Rail, page 55:

     Each operator (usually a young man bearing the PPE of the day - a cloth cap) would send the hook down, enabling the parcel-filled basket to be hauled up, then whisked overhead and above carriage-roof height.

References

• “cloth cap”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cloth cap”, in Collins English Dictionary.