Waterproof fabric used to make covers for cargo or equipment.
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Examples for "tarpaulin "
Examples for "tarpaulin "
1 That's the 'bus-no ; the tarpaulin hangs down and obscures the inscription; yes.
2 Accordingly, a big tarpaulin was fastened over the hole in the roof.
3 Families use it to prop up tarpaulin tents or build makeshift shelters.
4 Pull up the blankets, and then the long end of the tarpaulin .
5 The tarpaulin - wrapped object that he carried weighed at least five hundred pounds.
1 There was a heap of baggage near the centre of the boat, covered with a tarpauling .
2 The tarpauling was scanty there, and a man's hand and part of his arm dangled helpless out.
3 Julia had seen two men carrying a trestle with a tarpauling over it, and a third walking beside.
4 Tom soon made his appearance, doffing his tarpauling as he entered, and taking a seat to which Frank pointed, nearly opposite Moggy.
5 Hilloa!-ondeck there!-youGuinea, pick me up a tailor, and send him aloft, to keep the wind out of this waister's tarpauling .
6 They seemed to be all close as usual, but I now observed for the first time that they were covered with heavy tarpauling .
7 Imaru lay close to me during the night, and, in order to keep entire possession of my blanket, I had to allow him a tarpauling .
8 "He's under that tarpauling , " said the mate, pointing to the boat, "and he's rather more than half drownded.
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