Definitions for sailcloth

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sailcloth sail·cloth

Spelling: [seyl-klawth, -kloth]

IPA: /ˈseɪlˌklɔθ, -ˌklɒθ/

Sailcloth is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 519 anagrams from letters in sailcloth (achillost).

Definitions for sailcloth

noun

1. any of various fabrics, as of cotton, nylon, or Dacron, for boat sails or tents.
2. a lightweight canvas or canvaslike fabric used especially for clothing and curtains.

Origin of sailcloth

1175-1225; Middle English saylclath; see sail, cloth

Examples for sailcloth

I then asked Abraham for a piece of sailcloth to serve as a towel.

There were curtains of sailcloth put over the windows to obscure the sunlight.

I will procure, if commissioned, any quantity of sailcloth and cordage.

I had heard that the custom was to sew them up in sailcloth or something, and weight them well.

Spreading a piece of sailcloth on the ground, I summoned my boys to set to work.

The picture was executed on a piece of sailcloth, in a boathouse at Cremyll.

A shelter may be made with a piece of sailcloth or other material as shown in Fig. 6.

Then she put it to bed, and wrapped it up carefully in its sailcloth blanket.

They are still within the grotto, unseen, as the sailcloth curtains it.

You'd better be slinging me over a sailcloth or something, or else the water'll fill her.