wagonsheet

plural wagonsheets · alternative wagon-sheet

1. A large cloth, usually canvas, that covers the bed of a wagon to keep dust off the load.

   A wet wagonsheet wrapped around it served both to keep the flies off and to cool the carcass.

   1966, Squire Omar Barker, Little World Apart, page 92

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   We found out he would go out into a pasture, stretch a wagonsheet in the gate and drive the sheep across . The wagonsheet kept them from leaving leaving tracks.

   1969, The Ranch Magazine - Volume 50, page 10

   He had no physician here except for Dust Devil and her medicinal herbs, and no shelter either, save for the pitched wagonsheet, or two wagonbeds.

   2002, Richard S. Wheeler, The Rocky Mountain Company, page 153