Weather Cloth

How it happened I know not, but Miss West and I crouched together, clinging to the rail and to each other in the shelter of the thrumming weather-cloth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Knight appeared with the rug, and they sat down behind a weather-cloth on the windward side, just as the two red eyes of the ❋ Unknown (2006)

The sails blew away, she lay broadside on under a weather-cloth, the ocean poured over her, and we did not care. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They had gained the shelter of the weather-cloth, and could converse with raised voices, as people quarrel. ❋ Unknown (1902)

But they were picturesque ruffians exceedingly, with long spurs, hooded stirrups, slouch hats, fur weather-cloth over their knees, and pistol-butts just easy to hand. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

Knight appeared with the rug, and they sat down behind a weather-cloth on the windward side, just as the two red eyes of the Needles glared upon them from the gloom, their pointed summits rising like shadowy phantom figures against the sky. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

At five o'clock the next morning, as we were lying-to under the reefed main-sail and balanced mizen, a vast sea broke over the quarter where the ship's oars were lashed, and carried away six of them, with the weather-cloth; it also broke the mizen-gaff close where the sail was reeled, and the iron-strap of one of the main dead eyes, laying the whole vessel for some time under water: ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)