unhatting
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]unhatting
- present participle and gerund of unhat
Noun
[edit]unhatting (plural unhattings)
- The removal of one's hat.
- 1878, Popular Science, volume 13, number 9, page 162:
- Such extreme instances yield verifications, if there need any, of the conclusion that the mutual bows, and courtesies, and unhattings, among ourselves, are remnants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive.