ducking coat

plural ducking coats

1. A short, warmly lined waterproof jacket, made in neutral colors or camouflage.

   The satchel had belonged to his grandfather and the blanketlined duckingcoat he wore had been his father's.

   1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 19

   3 more examples

   That he had collected the money on some promissory notes due him, and put it in the pocket of a ducking coat, fastened the pocket with a wire, and when he went to bed, put the coat under his head.

   1896, The Texas Criminal Reports, page 413

   The frost got to biting my fingers and toes. But I was plenty warm inside my new ducking coat that had a red blanket lining.

   1954, William Peery, Twenty-one Texas Short Stories, page 207

   Powerless to help, I had to watch both him and my horse drown. My boots, leggins, spurs, six-shooter, and ducking coat seemed to weigh tons.

   1998, J. Frank Dobie, John D. Young, A Vaquero of the Brush Country, page 120