tarpawling

“Ho, Nim,” cried a burly fellow in a tarpawling and blue jacket, evidently recognizing an old acquaintance.

Margaret 1851

Some of the spectators compared the shield to a parasol without a handle; others to a pot-lid; and one a sedate-looking old woman, observing the tarpawling still covering the legs and lower part of the thighs, remarked to her companion, that she supposed they had been uncovering it by degrees, in order to use the people to the sight gradually.

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

The tarpawling and lumber forward had disappeared, and there lay long Tom ready levelled, grinning on his pivot.

Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

There was a long shed in the centre of this cleared spot, covered in with boards, and thatched with palm leaves; it was open below, a sort of capstan -- house, where a vast quantity of sails, anchors, cordage, and most kinds of sea stores were stowed, carefully covered over with tarpawling.

Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

There was a tarpawling stretched over a quantity of rubbish, old sails, old junk, and hencoops rather ostentatiously piled up forward, which we conjectured might conceal a long gun.

Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

Or sear-cloth masts with strong _tarpawling_ coats;

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

Try the pump, bear up the helme; Master let us breathe and refresh a little, and sling a man overboard [_i. e._ lower a man over the side] to stop the leakes; that is, to trusse him up aboute the middle in a piece of canvas, and a rope to keep him from sinking, and his armes at liberty, with a malet in the one hand, and a plug lapped in Okum, and well tarred in a tarpawling clowt in the other, which he will quickly beat into the hole or holes the bullets made; What cheere mates? is all well?

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922