cloth cap

plural cloth caps

1. UKA man's flat woollen cap with a peak.

   Our relief at Paris was a mécanicien looking like a Darnall "Grinder" in his cloth cap with a button on top - and no goggles either.

   1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 148

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   Each operator (usually a young man bearing the PPE of the day - a cloth cap) would send the hook down, enabling the parcel-filled basket to be hauled up, then whisked overhead and above carriage-roof height.

   2020 December 30, Tim Dunn, “The railway's mechanical marvels”, in Rail, page 55