sailcloth
IPA: sˈeɪɫkɫɔθ
noun
- A strong, durable fabric suitable for making sails for ships or boats.
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Examples of "sailcloth" in Sentences
- Their wings cut the air with the heavy slap of sailcloth snapping in the wind.
- Her gnarled fingers plunged a needle in and out of a large piece of thick sailcloth.
- Since we cannot wash Towels, we have lined his Cot with sailcloth which is now Black with Blood.
- Flaming sections bubbled and sizzled into the depths, and blazing sailcloth fluttered into the waves.
- In the plane, she saw the blue sailcloth tacked down over something beside her, but didn't have much curiosity about it.
- We made little houses from reams of sailcloth and we took turns keeping the fire lest wild animals should want to desecrate the body.
- Crew, this cover is handmade in San Francisco out of sailcloth and linen using traditional bookbinding methods and has a contrasting spine to emulate the look of a proper hardcover.
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