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

  • noun A tight-fitting hat with visors in the front and back, originally worn by hunters.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who practises deer-stalking.
  • noun A lined cap of cloth or flannel, peaked before and behind with the same material, and sometimes having ear-flaps which are turned up over the crown and tied together at the top by laces.

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

  • noun One who practices deerstalking.
  • noun engraving A close-fitting cap, usually woolen, such as is worn in deerstalking, having a low crown and visors both in front and back, and having earflaps which are usually worn tied together over the top; also called fore-and-after, deerstalker hat and deerstalker cap; a hunter's cap; formerly also used for any stiff, round hat.

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

  • noun One who takes part in deer stalking.
  • noun Alternative form of deerstalker hat.

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

  • noun a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters

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