canvas duck

American  

noun

1. a lightweight cotton or linen fabric.

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Example Sentences

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

The principal manufactures are those of flax, canvas, duck, &c., also silk and woollens.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

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

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

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)