Scotch cap
1. A man's head-dress made of thick firm woollen cloth, without a brim, and decorated with two tails or streamers.
One form is the glengarry which is elongated, with a depression in the middle. Another is the Balmoral, which is round and flat, the top projecting all round the head.
| 1591 Spenser M. Hubberd 209 Vpon his head an old Scotch cap he wore. 1595 Locrine iv. ii. 20 Stage-Direction, Enter Strumbo with a pitchforke and a scotch-cap. 1889 Clark Russell Marooned (1890) 274 Nothing was wanting to him but his Scotch cap. |
2. U.S. a. The wild black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis.
| 1891 in Century Dict. |
b. The salmon-berry, Rubus parviflorus.
| 1902 in Webster Suppl. |