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priestcap

priestcap noun: a skullcap.

Noun

priestcap (plural priestcaps)

  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 Frankl2014, Matthew Phipps Shiel, The Lord of the Sea
  2. 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.1894, D.H. Hanaburgh, History of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment: New York Volunteers (US Infantry): in the Late Civil War, page 66
    • 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."1990, Carl Moneyhon, Carl H. Moneyhon, Bobby Leon Roberts ·, Portraits of Conflict, page 226

Forms of priestcap

pluralpriestcaps

Origin of priestcap

From priest + cap, from its shape.

Questions about priestcap

What does priestcap mean?
Priestcap means a skullcap.
What part of speech is priestcap?
Priestcap is a noun.
What is the plural of priestcap?
The plural of priestcap is priestcaps.

Words near priestcap in the dictionary

  1. priest-kings
  2. priest-monk
  3. priest-monks
  4. priest-ridden
  5. priestal
  6. priestcap
  7. priestcaps
  8. priestcraft
  9. priestcrafts
  10. priestdom
  11. priestdoms

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