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SAILCLOTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sailcloth mean?
• SAILCLOTH (noun)
The noun SAILCLOTH has 1 sense:
1. a strong fabric (such as cotton canvas) used for making sails and tents
Familiarity information: SAILCLOTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A strong fabric (such as cotton canvas) used for making sails and tents
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("sailcloth" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Context examples
“In the Speedy,” said Cochrane, “the sailcloth was so thin that, when I made my observation, I always took my meridian through the foretopsail and my horizon through the foresail.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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