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OILSKIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof
Synonyms:
oilskin; slicker
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("oilskin" is a kind of...):
mac; macintosh; mack; mackintosh (a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric)
Context examples:
Everything was wet except Maud, and she, in oilskins, rubber boots, and sou’wester, was dry, all but her face and hands and a stray wisp of hair.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
At her solicitation I let her take the watch till midnight,—it was then nine o’clock, but I wrapped her in blankets and put an oilskin about her before I lay down.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I helped myself also to blankets, mittens, oilskins, caps, and such things, from the slop-chest.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“Johnson,” Wolf Larsen said, with an air of dismissing all that had gone before as introductory to the main business in hand, “I understand you’re not quite satisfied with those oilskins?”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Everywhere was a thick litter of discarded and ragged garments, old sea-boots, leaky oilskins—all the worthless forecastle dunnage of a long voyage.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It smelled sour and musty, and by the dim light of the swinging sea-lamp I saw every bit of available wall-space hung deep with sea-boots, oilskins, and garments, clean and dirty, of various sorts.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
