canvas duck

American  

noun

1. a lightweight cotton or linen fabric.

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canvas duck

Above is a small container of canvas duck in which the great silken fabric, of 24-ft. diameter when open, is cleverly packed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tent′-bed, a bed having a canopy hanging from a central point overhead; Tent′-cloth, canvas, duck, &c. suitable for tents.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Note 4, page 6: The "tarp" or tarpaulin, or cowboy bed-sheet, is a strip of sixteen- or eighteen-ounce canvas duck six to eight feet wide and ten to twenty feet long.

From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

Had we been able to afford the best quality of canvas duck, such an occurrence would probably have been avoided.

From The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island by Bond, A. Russell (Alexander Russell)

No oysters, no turtle, fresh salmon, fried sole, No canvas duck nor fowl casserole.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various