Billycock

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Billycock \Bil"ly*cock\, n., or Billycock hat \Bil"ly*cock hat`\
     [Perh. from bully + cock; that is, cocked like the hats of
     the bullies.]
     A round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake. "The undignified
     billycocks and pantaloons of the West." --B. H. Chamberlain.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           Little acquiesced, and Ransome disguised him in a
           beard, and a loose set of clothes, and a billicock hat.
                                                    --Charles
                                                    Reade.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]