Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical:
- noun A covering of painted canvas for hammocks, boats, etc.
- noun A tarpaulin placed in the weather rigging to make a shelter for officers and men on watch.
- noun The tarpaulin or sail sometimes exposed in the after weather rigging to keep a ship's head forced up to the sea and wind when she is hove to.
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Examples
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How it happened I know not, but Miss West and I crouched together, clinging to the rail and to each other in the shelter of the thrumming weather-cloth.
CHAPTER XXVIII 2010
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Knight appeared with the rug, and they sat down behind a weather-cloth on the windward side, just as the two red eyes of the
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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The sails blew away, she lay broadside on under a weather-cloth, the ocean poured over her, and we did not care.
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How it happened I know not, but Miss West and I crouched together, clinging to the rail and to each other in the shelter of the thrumming weather-cloth.
Chapter 28 1914
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They had gained the shelter of the weather-cloth, and could converse with raised voices, as people quarrel.
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But they were picturesque ruffians exceedingly, with long spurs, hooded stirrups, slouch hats, fur weather-cloth over their knees, and pistol-butts just easy to hand.
American Notes Rudyard Kipling 1900
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The sails blew away, she lay broadside on under a weather-cloth, the ocean poured over her, and we did not care.
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How it happened I know not, but Miss West and I crouched together, clinging to the rail and to each other in the shelter of the thrumming weather-cloth.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896
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They had gained the shelter of the weather-cloth, and could converse with raised voices, as people quarrel.
Typhoon Joseph Conrad 1890
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The sails blew away, she lay broadside on under a weather-cloth, the ocean poured over her, and we did not care.
Youth, a Narrative Joseph Conrad 1890
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