watch cap

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   a knitted dark blue wool cap worn by seamen in cold or stormy weather

   Broadercap

Questions about watch cap

What does watch cap mean?

watch cap means "a knitted dark blue wool cap worn by seamen in cold or stormy weather".

Is watch cap a common word?

watch cap is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.