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priestcap

noun

Etymology

From priest + cap, from its shape.

  1. derived from caput
  2. derived from cappa
  3. inherited from *kappā✻ — “covering, hood, mantle”
  4. inherited from cæppe
  5. inherited from cappe
  6. compounded as priestcap — “priest + cap”

Definitions

  1. A skullcap.

    • At one point where the path ran close to Westring-park proper, the park on higher ground, a grass-bank seven feet high dividing them, he was a-top of the bank in caftan, priest-cap, and phylacteries, taking snuff—Baruch Frankl

  2. A form of redan in fortifications

    A form of redan in fortifications; a swallowtail.

    • One led from Dryea's Battery toward the Priestcap and by various windings to within about twenty yards of the parapet.
    • For the next hour the Union troops tried to storm the priestcap, but there was only "a continued repetition of this scene; a yell, a rush, shouts, muskets, cries, and groans."
    • In the center, Augur and Paine attacked with vigor and were bloodily repulsed when they struck what turned out to be the strongest point of the enemy line, the priestcap near the Jackson road;

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA