shovel hat

1. 1.

   a stiff broad-brimmed hat with the brim turned up at the sides and projecting in front; worn by some clergymen in Britain

   Broaderhat

Questions about shovel hat

What does shovel hat mean?

shovel hat means "a stiff broad-brimmed hat with the brim turned up at the sides and projecting in front; worn by some clergymen in Britain".

Is shovel hat a common word?

shovel hat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.