wagonsheet

See also: wagon-sheet

English

Alternative forms

• wagon-sheet

Etymology

From wagon +‎ sheet.

Noun

wagonsheet (plural wagonsheets)

1. A large cloth, usually canvas, that covers the bed of a wagon to keep dust off the load.
   • 1966, Squire Omar Barker, Little World Apart, page 92:

     A wet wagonsheet wrapped around it served both to keep the flies off and to cool the carcass.

   • 1969, The Ranch Magazine - Volume 50, page 10:

     We found out he would go out into a pasture, stretch a wagonsheet in the gate and drive the sheep across . The wagonsheet kept them from leaving leaving tracks.

   • 2002, Richard S. Wheeler, The Rocky Mountain Company, page 153:

     He had no physician here except for Dust Devil and her medicinal herbs, and no shelter either, save for the pitched wagonsheet, or two wagonbeds.