Anagrams of: COWBOYHAT

• a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback

• a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging

• someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles)

• poorly done

• a small portable timepiece

• a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty

• a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe

• the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty

• a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

• the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)

• look attentively

• follow with the eyes or the mind

• see or watch

• observe with attention

• be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful

• observe or determine by looking

• find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

• an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing

• travel in a yacht

• A small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas by labourers or farmhands.

• An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird, Pterodroma cahow, from Bermuda; the Bermuda petrel.

• the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'

• informal terms for a meal

• the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism

• breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern China