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ground cloth

noun as in drop cloth

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At 91, he brought a ground cloth to kneel on as his wife, Rose, pulled the noble back slightly to help keep open the hand-sawn cut.

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“I only need enough for a week or so. But I need to borrow a sleeping skin and ground cloth. I’ll mail them back when I get where I’m going. “They’re a wedding present.’’

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We were going to be around a rocky area that night with plenty of opportunities to create shelter with just a ground cloth, so we decided not to take a tent & save some weight.

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Marcel’s laughter was like a painter’s ground cloth that protects the furniture and anything else under a ceiling being painted.

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Most usefully, keep a dry corner of your yard free of lawn, thick mulch or ground cloth.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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