[f. prec. sb.]
† 1. intr. ? To take off the bonnet in token of respect; to ‘vail the bonnet.’ Obs.
1607. Shaks., Cor., II. ii. 30. Those, who hauing beene supple and courteous to the People, Bonnetted, without any further deed, to haue them at all into their estimation.
2. trans. To put a bonnet on.
1858. Geo. Eliot, Scenes Cler. Life, II. 174. She was duly bonneted and pinafored.
3. To crush down a person’s hat over his eyes.
1837. Dickens, Sk. Boz (1850), 239/1. Two young men … varied their amusements by ‘bonneting’ the proprietor of this itinerant coffee-house.
1882. Sat. Rev., LIV. 629. The Students hustled and ‘bonnetted’ a new Professor.
