'Tarpaulin' definitions:
Definition of 'Tarpaulin'
From: GCIDE
- Tarpaulin \Tar*pau"lin\, n. [Tar + palling a covering, pall to cover. See Pall a covering.]
- 1. A piece of canvas covered with tar or a waterproof composition, used for covering the hatches of a ship, hammocks, boats, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence, a sailor; a seaman; a tar. [1913 Webster]
- To a landsman, these tarpaulins, as they were called, seemed a strange and half-savage race. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]