Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A canvas cover placed as a protection over a furled sail.
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Examples
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'We got out the sail-cover -- a piece of tarpaulin -- to make a shelter of, and rigged it up against the mast, seizing it to the burtons; but it hadn't been up two minutes when a heavy sea hit and washed it right aft in rags; so there was nothing to do but to hold on to the thwarts and shake ourselves when the water came over.
Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor
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I found some canvas, part of a sail-cover, and stretched myself out on a seat, with the canvas over me to keep off the dampness.
The Voyage of the Hoppergrass Edmund Lester Pearson 1908
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