tarpaulin in English

noun
1
heavy-duty waterproof cloth, originally of tarred canvas.
The sun was quite low when the train pulled into another yard, and he had covered them with tarpaulin once again.
2
a sailor's tarred or oilskin hat.
A farmer is not exposed to falling ropes, or spars, or tackle-hence, does not need a stiff tarpaulin , like a sailor or a fireman.
noun

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1. We just want what's underneath that tarpaulin.

2. 1 Make sure the tarpaulin is securely pegged down.

3. 30 x ball Bungees tarpaulin tarp bungee cord trampoline

4. Players flee for cover and tarpaulin goes back out.

5. 11 Many refugees are sheltering under makeshift tarpaulin structures.

6. 3 Players flee for cover and tarpaulin goes back out.

7. 18 Players flee for cover and tarpaulin goes back out.

8. 23 Yanto could see something behind the boxes, covered by a tarpaulin.

9. 2 A second-hand railway tarpaulin is stronger but more expensive.

10. 19 The Skyhawks on its flight deck were fast under tarpaulin.

11. 28 The pool furniture was folded, stacked, and covered with a tarpaulin.

12. We put a tarpaulin across the window to block out the sun - light.

13. Most homes were mud brick with roofs made of tin or tarpaulin.

14. 12 We put a tarpaulin across the window to block out the sun - light.

15. 5 The men sheltered under a tarpaulin slung across the corner of the barge.

16. He stretched a large tarpaulin over the vehicle, tying it down at the corners.

17. 18 He padded across the floor and under the huge tarpaulin where Jekub lived.

18. 27 With over 15 years specialized experience in manufacturing, selling, and serving of tarpaulin.

19. On the other hand, a temporary structure is made of poles covered by a tarpaulin.

20. 14 Shell fabric for automobile and toy: tarpaulin, loop velvet, poly spun velour, and etc.

21. 4 He stretched a large tarpaulin over the vehicle, tying it down at the corners.

22. The Body bags in NSW are made of blue tarpaulin, as shown in figure 1

23. 22 The Arvin sentries in front of the politicians' houses ducked into their tarpaulin shelters.

24. 17 A pickup truck passed us with three men in the back sheltering under a tarpaulin.

25. 24 Any odorous stockpiled material left in excess of two days shall be covered with tarpaulin sheets.

26. Occasionally Body bags will be made of brown tarpaulin, or a white or brown heavy cloth.

27. 16 A red tarpaulin could indicate the presence of seriously injured victims who needed immediate evacuation.

28. Telephone apparatus and equipment, receivers and transmitters, radios, radio pagers, remote control apparatus, telephone receivers, safety tarpaulin

29. 26 After that, in order to buy them on the ground tarpaulin, from Zouping to Zibo car.

30. 15 A yellow tarpaulin could indicate that casualties needed evacuation but that the situation was not critical.

31. 13 Packing materials, Tarpaulin and Packing materials belong to our portfolio . For more information please call us.

32. 21 He kept a Land-Rover, its distributor removed, parked under a tarpaulin in the brush behind the house.

33. She sat outside the tarpaulin, rubbed her hair with ghee, then filled a basin with water and a little buttermilk.

34. 6 He had spread a tarpaulin over the duckboards, and on top of it they dumped blankets from the ambulance.

35. 28 Apart from the tarpaulin and the mattresses, I've lost a couple of sleeping bags, some tracksuit bottoms and some trainers.

36. 8 Apart from the tarpaulin and the mattresses, I've lost a couple of sleeping bags, some tracksuit bottoms and some trainers.

37. 10 It is understood to have started when tarpaulin sheeting blew on to heaters drying a new resin coating on repair work.

38. 20 The man had been impaled on the rusted spikes of a security gate that had been discarded underneath the tarpaulin.

39. 7 She sat outside the tarpaulin, rubbed her hair with ghee,(www.Sentencedict.com) then filled a basin with water and a little buttermilk.

40. On arrival at the camp, a refugee is given some basic material for building a home and a tarpaulin for roofing.

41. I remember how surprised I was to find Body bags were made of exactly the same stuff as the tarpaulin in my car

42. 29 Mischief, who lives in Godshill in the New Forest, had relatively wandered into a neighbour's garden - uncognizant to the pool because of a plastic tarpaulin sheet.

43. 25 Mischief, who lives in Godshill in the New Forest, had apparently wandered into a neighbour's garden - unaware of the pool because of a plastic tarpaulin sheet.

44. 30 At the foot of the slope there are cinder block houses, but as you climb the ridge, concrete gives way to wood and tarpaulin, then cardboard and twigs.

45. He and some other brothers had excavated a small pool by hand and had lined it with the tarpaulin that once covered his own shelter in the camp.

46. Definition of Coracle : a small boat used in Britain from ancient times and made of a frame (as of wicker) covered usually with hide or tarpaulin First Known Use of Coracle circa 1547, in …

47. Oppressed by his gloominess, Foma had come down on the deck from his cabin, and, for some time, had been standing in the shadow of some wares covered with tarpaulin, and listened to the Admonitive and gentle voice of the preacher.

48. ‘The consensus is that the insured should have had a non-combustible tarpaulin or heat retardant blanket of some form hung from the top of the Bilge area down to the bottom of the Bilge against the exhaust port hole on the inside of the boat.’

49. Batten (n.) "strip of wood, bar nailed across parallel boards to hold them together," 1650s, Englished variant of baton "a stick, a staff" (see baton).Nautical sense "strip of wood nailed down over a tarpaulin over a ship's hatches to prevent leakage in stormy weather" is attested from 1769.