wagonsheet
See also: wagon-sheet
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Noun
wagonsheet (plural wagonsheets)
- A large cloth, usually canvas, that covers the bed of a wagon to keep dust off the load.
- 1966, Squire Omar Barker, Little World Apart, page 92:
- A wet wagonsheet wrapped around it served both to keep the flies off and to cool the carcass.
- 1969, The Ranch Magazine - Volume 50, page 10:
- We found out he would go out into a pasture, stretch a wagonsheet in the gate and drive the sheep across . The wagonsheet kept them from leaving leaving tracks.
- 2002, Richard S. Wheeler, The Rocky Mountain Company, page 153:
- He had no physician here except for Dust Devil and her medicinal herbs, and no shelter either, save for the pitched wagonsheet, or two wagonbeds.
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