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☆ have·lock (hav′läk′)

noun

a light cloth covering for a military cap, falling over the back of the neck for protection against the sun

Etymology: after Sir Henry Havelock (1795-1857), Eng general in India

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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