tarpaulin

Definitions

1. 1.A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others.
2. 2.Hence, a sailor; a seaman; a tar. To a landsman, these tarpaulins, as they were called, seemed a strange and half-savage race. Macaulay.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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