have|lock

have|lock
have|lock «HAV lok», noun.
a white cloth covering for a cap. It falls over the back of the neck and gives protection against the sun.
[American English < General Henry Havelock, a British officer, distinguished in the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857]

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