OILCLOTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oilcloth mean? 

• OILCLOTH (noun)
  The noun OILCLOTH has 1 sense:

1. cloth treated on one side with a drying oil or synthetic resin

  Familiarity information: OILCLOTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OILCLOTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cloth treated on one side with a drying oil or synthetic resin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("oilcloth" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

 Context examples 

And he cast down upon the floor a paper that I instantly recognized—none other than the chart on yellow paper, with the three red crosses, that I had found in the oilcloth at the bottom of the captain's chest.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

My mother pulled it up with impatience, and there lay before us, the last things in the chest, a bundle tied up in oilcloth, and looking like papers, and a canvas bag that gave forth, at a touch, the jingle of gold.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)