Man's silk hat with high cylindrical crown.
1He had on an old cylinder hat which had evidently seen good service, and yet became him remarkably.
2I enjoyed it a good deal, and assisted in so far as to pelt all the people in cylinder hats with handfuls of confetti.
3I could now understand the advertisements of "secondhand cylinder hats for sale," which I had noticed, the day before, in the newspapers of the Canton.