CANVAS

I. noun also ~s see: cannabis Date: 13th century a firm closely woven cloth usually of linen, hemp, or cotton used for clothing and formerly much used for tents and sails, a set of sails ; sail , a piece of ~ used for a particular purpose, tent , 5. a piece of cloth backed or framed as a surface for a painting, the background, setting, or scope of a historical or fictional account or narrative, a coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, the ~-covered floor of a boxing or wrestling ring, ~like adjective II. transitive verb (-vased or -vassed; -vasing or -vassing) Date: 1556 to cover, line, or furnish with ~