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- adjective Covered with a
tarpaulin .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Inside, the ship was a series of interlocking cells, most of them made of wooden lattices through which you could see men working or the tanned sides of tarpaulined and lashed crates.
Sun of Suns 2006
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The long dining-room table was little more than a floor-length cloth punctuated by the regular bumps of its chairs, its long tarpaulined surface set with three blackened candle-sticks.
Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005
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The long dining-room table was little more than a floor-length cloth punctuated by the regular bumps of its chairs, its long tarpaulined surface set with three blackened candle-sticks.
Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005
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Tau Ceti crawled towards the western mountains, a tiny glare-point momentarily eclipsed by the tarpaulined shape swinging from the belly of the gyro.
The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987
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The mechanics took over as they came up on the half-tarpaulined planes.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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Blair nodded pleasantly toward the tarpaulined bulk on the table.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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So we tarpaulined it according to his instructions, and there it lies.
When the World Screamed Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1968
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So we tarpaulined it according to his instructions, and there it lies.
When The World Screamed Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1968
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Pepper, who always threw a good deal of enthusiasm into anything he attempted to do, was barely saved from going overboard several times, and when once left alone with the side oar, succeeded in dipping the blade under a piece of hidden rock and was thrown by the swift motion of the boat high in the air, alighting somewhat breathless on the mass of tarpaulined freight in front of him, luckily without serious injury.
The Boy Scouts on the Yukon Ralph Victor
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Presently he heard one of the men say to another as they stamped down the tarpaulined hatch, "There -- there's as good a prize ring as a man'd want."
Wide Courses 1912
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