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Sailcloth   Listen
noun
Sailcloth  n.  Duck or canvas used in making sails.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sailcloth" Quotes from Famous Books



... fans and nurses the flame of sedition, the chief who sells himself, when his country is weathering the storms, and surrenders either fortresses or ships; who, like Thorycion,[427] the wretched collector of tolls, sends prohibited goods from Aegina to Epidaurus, such as oar-leathers, sailcloth and pitch, and who secures a subsidy for a hostile fleet,[428] or soils the statues of Hecat,[429] while he is humming some dithyramb. Away from here, the orator who nibbles at the salary of the poets, because he has been scouted in the ancient ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al



Words linked to "Sailcloth" :   material, textile, cloth, fabric



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