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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One whose occupation is the manufacture, selling, or repair of hats.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To gather in a heap; collect in a crowd.
  • To entangle.
  • To expose to danger; harass; trouble; weary; wear out.
  • To shatter; batter.
  • To speak with thick and confused utterance.
  • noun A state of confusion.
  • noun A confused heap.
  • noun A maker or seller of hats.
  • noun In mining, a miner who works alone, or “under his own hat.”
  • noun Violently angry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To tire or worry; -- with out.
  • noun One who makes or sells hats.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who makes, sells, or repairs hats.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who makes and sells hats

Etymologies

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From hat +‎ -er.

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