Meaning of wagonsheet | Babel Free

Definitions

A large cloth, usually canvas, that covers the bed of a wagon to keep dust off the load.

Examples

“A wet wagonsheet wrapped around it served both to keep the flies off and to cool the carcass.”

“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.”

“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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