noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A second-hand railway tarpaulin is stronger but more expensive.
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He had spread a tarpaulin over the duckboards, and on top of it they dumped blankets from the ambulance.
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He kept a Land-Rover, its distributor removed, parked under a tarpaulin in the brush behind the house.
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It is understood to have started when tarpaulin sheeting blew on to heaters drying a new resin coating on repair work.
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Players flee for cover and tarpaulin goes back out.
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Spattered tarpaulins and paint cans were stacked in a corner.
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The Arvin sentries in front of the politicians' houses ducked into their tarpaulin shelters.
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Yanto could see something behind the boxes, covered by a tarpaulin .