tarpauling

'pitch, tar, and tallow, as would serve to make a kind of tarpauling cloth, two pipe staves saw'd across ... for oars, a little bread and two leather bottles full of fresh water, and as much canvas as would serve for a sail,' their preparations before 'launching out into the deep' were complete.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

Banghurst had considered essential, black and limp in the breezeless dawn, and amidst all these things a great shape covered with tarpauling.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

‘Grampus’ — and Lord love you, Pumpo, you poor land-swab, she WAS as pretty a craft as ever dowsed a tarpauling — there was a woman on board the

Burlesques 2006

‘Grampus’ — and Lord love you, Pumpo, you poor land-swab, she WAS as pretty a craft as ever dowsed a tarpauling — there was a woman on board the

Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

Dan knew that he should find a very fair berth there, with a roll or two of stuff to lay his back on, and a piece of tarpauling to draw over his legs.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

They seemed to be all close as usual, but I now observed for the first time that they were covered with heavy tarpauling.

The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

At Kleinemond ECN saw a red jeep loaded with rowdy revellers - some drinking - dragging two men sitting in a tarpauling across the beach.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

The cow and the buffalo were yoked to the carriage, which was snugly covered over with a tarpauling, thrown across circular girds, like the old-fashioned waggons of country carriers.

Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien

Broxbourne to London, and one of these 3rd class carriages with the iron hoop and tarpauling roof over it was so full that the pressure on the wheels and consequent friction began to produce sparks and then smoke!

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

Some of them set to work trying to tear the tarpauling away from the roof in order to communicate with the guard, but unfortunately the tarpauling seemed to be the strongest part of the carriage, and it appeared to be a case of all being burned to death before the train stopped!

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston