ground cloth

Example Sentences

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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.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2017

The inquiry room was formed by hanging large curtains of green "ground cloth" at one end of the barren gas-cell shop.

From Time Magazine Archive

She set up her tent beside the barrel, banked the snow around the bottom to seal out the wind, and spread her ground cloth under it.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

It would also be useful; a pagne could be worn as clothing, tied to bundle a baby — or a bonobo — onto your back, or serve as a ground cloth for sleeping.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

She had windproofed it by sealing the sod bricks with mud from the pond at her door, and she had made it beautiful by spreading her caribou ground cloth on the floor.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George