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tarpaulin

[tahr-paw-lin, tahr-puh-lin]

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noun

a protective covering of canvas or other material waterproofed with tar, paint, or wax.

a hat, especially a sailor's, made of or covered with such material.

Rare. a sailor.

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Origin:
1595–1605; earlier tarpauling. See tar¹, pall¹, -ing¹

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Blue tarpaulin and chain-link fences are coming down.

Mineral sands, such as zircon, sit under a tarpaulin.

Or spread tarpaulin at dropping time, knock off all fruit, and dispose of it.

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Blue tarpaulin and chain-link fences are coming down.

Mineral sands, such as zircon, sit under a tarpaulin.

Or spread tarpaulin at dropping time, knock off all fruit, and dispose of it.

Many will remain in tents and under tarpaulin construction of any kind.

No roof yet, only a blue plastic tarpaulin donated by the.

Many refugees are sheltering under makeshift tarpaulin structures.

Rishid had wrapped the body in a tarpaulin and had placed the hammer in a trash bag.

The génocidaires would probably have killed him, too, had he not escaped abroad in a rolled-up tarpaulin.

They prayed on a giant tarpaulin and then ate lamb stewed for hours in vast black caldrons.

Harnisch had been throwing baseballs into a tarpaulin that he had tied to two trees in his backyard.

The hole in the ship was later covered with a white tarpaulin.

It would go on top of the wood fire blazing inside the blue tarpaulin that makes the walls of his home.

Dead needles must be shaken out and the trees must be shipped either in an enclosed truck or covered with a tarpaulin.

Along the side motorcycles are parked under a tarpaulin.

It has a buckboard wide enough for two, a tarpaulin cover and room in the back for four people to sit or stretch out.

She had been shot and strangled, her face covered with duct tape and her body left under a tarpaulin.

There they set up the tarpaulin shelter for sleeping and fashioned a makeshift kitchen for cooking.

Gondolas lay tethered to poles and covered in blue tarpaulin.

Gradually the blue tarpaulin turns a sickly green as he empties his bladder.

Mir first took a tarpaulin from the truck and laid it over the bodies.

People live in roofless buildings left by the fighting, doing their best to scrub off the stinking mold and rig tarpaulin roofs.

Rain is falling, it is raw and chilly and the tarpaulin is covering the field.

We seal the wall with plywood, replacing the plastic tarpaulin that had kept out the rain all along.

On a tarpaulin placed over the dirt floor are two single beds layered with coarse wool blankets.

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tarpaulin (tɑːˈpɔːlɪn)

—n
1.	a heavy hard-wearing waterproof fabric made of canvas or similar material coated with tar, wax, or paint, for outdoor use as a protective covering against moisture
2.	a sheet of this fabric
3.	a hat of or covered with this fabric, esp a sailor's hat
4.	a rare word for seaman

[C17: probably from tar¹ + pall¹ + -ing¹]

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Word Origin & History

tarpaulin

1605, from tar (n.1) + palling, from pall "heavy cloth covering" (see pall (n.)); probably so called because the canvas is sometimes coated in tar to make it waterproof.

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