Havelock

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:04:55

Hav"e*lock (?), n. [From Havelock, an English general distinguished in India in the rebellion of 1857.]

A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.

 

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