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# hatter

«hatter» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who makes or sells hats** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hatter, hatters); a name (the Mad Hatter)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who makes or sells hats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatter/#m1)

2) (idiom) «As mad as a hatter» means very crazy or silly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatter/#m2)

3) (a name) The Mad Hatter, a character in «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatter/#m3)

4) In old Southern dialect, "hatter" is said for "have to", as in "I hatter go". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatter/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In reading lessons the Mad Hatter hosts a crazy tea party in «Alice in Wonderland». In history, hatters once used mercury to make felt hats, which could make them ill and act strangely; this may explain the saying «mad as a hatter». Phrases: mad as a hatter, the Mad Hatter's tea party.

### examples

- The Mad Hatter's tea party never ended. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatter/#x1)
- A hatter made top hats for the gentlemen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatter/#x2)
- My uncle is as mad as a hatter, but very kind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatter/#x3)
- Old hatters often became ill from the mercury in their work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatter/#x4)
- The hatter measured my head for a new cap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatter/#x5)
- We dressed up as the Mad Hatter for World Book Day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatter/#x6)
- Bimeby you'll drap off en I'll hatter tote you up ter de big 'ouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatter/#x7)

### note

Plural: hatters. Double t. «Mad as a hatter» is a jokey idiom; it is not kind to use «mad» about real mental illness. The work used to be dangerous because of mercury, a poison.

### In the corpora

- [When Alice asks the answer to the riddle, the Hatter says he has not the slightest idea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/7/)
- [At the table sit the March Hare, the Hatter and the Dormouse, who is fast asleep and used as a cushion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/12/)
- [«The Dormouse is asleep again,» says the Hatter, and he pours a little hot tea upon its nose.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/22/)
- [The Hatter finishes his tale: the Queen screamed «He's murdering the time!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/1/)
- [When the Hatter sang at the concert, the Queen «bawled out» (shouted) «He's murdering the time!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hatter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.