1843 R. S. Surtees II. 40 Suppose your 'at (hat) covers your family—wish mine did the same;..women are werry weary warmints.
1854 C. Dickens ii. i. 141 They would say, ‘While my hat covers my family,’..I have only one to feed.
1891 23 May 320/1 Quarters in the George Hotel, with stalls for the hacks and a bed out, that does not make much odds to one whose hat still covers his family.