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Castor

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A hat. Castor is the Latin for a beaver, and beaver means a hat made of the beaver’s skin.

“Tom Trot

Took his new castor from his head.”

Randall: Diary.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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