havelock
IPA: hˈævɫɑk
noun
- A cap incorporating a cloth hanging down the sides and back, to protect the ears and neck; often created ad hoc by placing a kerchief on the head and holding it in place with a cap.
- A surname.
- A civil parish of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
- A former township in the municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
- A small town in Marlborough, New Zealand.
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Examples of "havelock" in Sentences
- Havelock decided to attempt to relieve Lucknow.
- Sanders died in office at Havelock at the age of 37.
- Havelock Allan married three times but had no children.
- The sex psychologist Havelock Ellis also tried mescaline.
- Gough and Havelock had both ordered foolish or reckless charges.
- Havelock sent Brasyer's Sikhs regiment to cover the construction.
- The street then proceeded straight as far west as Havelock Street.
- Havelock was an important freight depot from the 1880s to the 1960s.
- I see him walking about Piccadilly in his green havelock almost every day.
- After calling some family members, Havelock turned himself in to the police.
- For more on the legendary founding of Grimsby see the Lay of Havelock the Dane.
- Blecker, leaning over the gate, of how she had brought him a badly-made havelock that morning.
- One was the secretary, only now he carried a machete and a candle and wore a black hat covered by a sequined havelock.
- Before him, Karl Yundt remained standing, one wing of his faded greenish havelock thrown back cavalierly over his shoulder.
- It poured as we stood on the forward deck; but my rubber blanket shed the rain, and my havelock, of the same material, kept it off head and neck.
- The knob of his stick and his legs shook together with passion, whilst the trunk, draped in the wings of the havelock, preserved his historic attitude of defiance.
- Under them lay the color guard; the scabbarded swords of the colonel and his staff were stuck upright in the ground, and the blanket-swathed figures of the officers in poncho and havelock reposed close by.
- She sewed for him, with the neatest of stitches, white gaiters, and a "havelock" for his cap - these afterward abandoned by authority as too shining marks for riflemen - tears dropping now and then upon her handiwork, but never a thought of telling
- Signaling to Davies to get under cover, he sprang into his own stand, and, crouching amid the straw, hastily drew over his black fur cap his linen havelock, and looking well to the priming of his gun, sought the whereabouts of the swift-flying birds.
- The traveler may call it stupid and ugly, if he calls it at all; our Hermitage still patiently wears its havelock of weather-beaten shingles, for _it_ knows that beneath its lowly roof -- radiant with whitewash and fresh paper -- are cozy, coolly curtained rooms, where friendly books look down from the wall, and drowsy arm-chairs woo from the corners.