hat

1. hat (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.

Example: There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

2. hat (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.

Example: It's all a matter of hats, Minister.

3. hat (noun) — sense 3

Definition: Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.

4. hat (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To place a hat on.

Example: After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.

5. hat (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To appoint as cardinal.

Example: It was truly a breathtaking rise. From the quiet school, Pope Pius XI had jumped Father Verdier over the heads of innumerable Bishops, made him Archbishop of Paris. Soon he was to be hatted a Prince of the Church and put in charge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.

6. hat (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To shop for hats.

Example: We might just go hatting this afternoon […]