| Main Entry: | tarpaulin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | covering |
Synonyms: |
canvas, coat, cover, dropcloth, oilcloth, sailcloth |
| Main Entry: | canvas |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coarse material |
Synonyms: |
awning cloth, duck, fly, sailcloth, shade, tarp, tarpaulin, tenting |
| Notes: | canvas is the noun (fabric etc.) and canvass is generally a verb (to solicit, question) - though a canvass can be an examination of pros and cons |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wrapping, cover-up |
Synonyms: |
awning, bark, binding, camouflage, canopy, canvas, cap, caparison, case, ceiling, cloak, clothing, coating, covering, coverlet, disguise, dome, dress, drop, envelope, facade, false front, fig leaf, front, guise, hood, integument, jacket, lid, marquee, mask, masquerade, overlay, paint, parasol, polish, pretense, put-on, roof, screen, seal, semblance, sheath, sheet, shroud, smoke screen, spread, stopper, tarp, tarpaulin, tegument, tent, top, umbrella, varnish, veil, veneer, window-dressing, wrapper, wraps |
| Main Entry: | sailor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who travels by sea |
Synonyms: |
able-bodied sailor, bluejacket, boater, cadet, circumnavigator, deck hand, diver, hearty*, jack, lascar, marine, mariner, mate, middy, midshipman/woman, navigator, old salt, pilot, pirate, salt, sea dog, sea person, seafarer, shellback, shipmate, swab, swabber, swabbie, tar, tarpaulin, water dog, windjammer, yachter |
| Main Entry: | drop cloth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protective cloth |
Synonyms: |
ground cloth, groundsheet, tarp, tarpaulin |
| Main Entry: | jack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sailor |
Synonyms: |
able-bodied sailor, bluejacket, boater, cadet, circumnavigator, deck hand, diver, hearty*, jack-tar, lascar, marine, mariner, mate, middy, midshipman/woman, navigator, old salt, pilot, pirate, salt, sea dog, sea person, seafarer, seaman, shellback, shipmate, swab, swabber, swabbie, tar, tarpaulin, water dog, windjammer, yachter |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
antipudic, apatetic, armor, conchiferous, conchitic, conchological, cortical, covered, covering, cutaneous, cuticular, cyanotic, decorticated, deric, dermal, desquamate, doughfaced, echinulate, enameled, encrusted, encuirassed, flue, furfuraceous, galericulate, imbricate, imbricated, incanous, ironclad, lanuginous, lepidote, lined, loricated, lutose, overlaid, pastose, plumulaceous, procryptic, rorulent, scaled, scaly, scurfy, skinny, squamaceous, squamate, squamous, stegocephalic, stimulose, strigillose, stupulose, superincumbent, superjacent, tegumentary, tomentose, under cover
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