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Tarpaulin meaning
A heavy, waterproof sheet of material, often cloth or plastic sheet, used as a cover or blanket (often as weatherproofing, or to keep loose cargo from blowing off a lorry). | Canvas waterproofed with tar, used as a cover. | A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others.
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The tarpaulin can occasionally be seen and/or heard underneath the actors in these scenes, and in fact the loud splatter sound usually heard during a watering or sliming is due to this tarpaulin.
Aamina**, a 65-year-old mother of four, lives in one of the camps on the outskirts of Baidoa, where thousands of people live in rows of makeshift tents covered with tarpaulin or whatever materials they can find.
Afraid of persecution by the governments in both countries, around 100 families are staying in temporary bamboo and tarpaulin shelters on the border near Moreh in Manipur, the refugee committee said.
A mother with an infant told Amnesty International that she sleeps under a tarpaulin sheet the government gave her while her husband builds their house at Run Ta Ek.
An aerial view of a dense jungle where a blue tarpaulin is hung up covering series of makeshift shacks.
Another dog was carried in on a piece of Tarpaulin and was bleeding.
Footage taken at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital showed rows of bodies laid out under white tarpaulin including five children.
Harvesting of mustard should also be postponed for a few days, he stressed, adding that if already harvested, the produce should be covered with tarpaulin or kept at a safe place to avoid loss.
In practical terms, a basin is a hole several hectares in size covered with strong and impermeable tarpaulin sheets.
The 49-year-old said he was forced to rig up a makeshift outdoor shower, using a sink and a tarpaulin for privacy.
The State Crime Command's Homicide Squad and detectives from Campbelltown Police Area Command are investigating Mr Tougher's death under Strike Force Tarpaulin.
A huge groundswell of opinion demanded it be saved and after cowering underneath a tarpaulin in a Ladywood car park before going into storage, Network Rail announced it would be providing a ring for him on the station's concourse.
Hall told the court he saw a slope which he descended, observing a blue tarpaulin, an old wheelbarrow, and an old metal drum approximately 15 to 20 feet away from the roadway where they had parked.
In response to repeated attacks by settlers, school administrators in Urif said they had spent the equivalent of 62,500 euros on a tarpaulin to catch thrown stones and they have also installed barbed wire.
PVStop, is a black liquid polymer coating designed to cover solar panels like a liquid tarpaulin.
Thousands are living in tents or under tarpaulin.
Northern Territory Police must stop the practice of transporting children in remand and detention in so-called 'Police cages' - a ute with a cage on the tray covered with a tarpaulin.
There was glass on the floor, exposed pipes, trenches and sand bags littered around the outside of the property, with tarpaulin sheets spread around the villa.
Video footage showed blue and white tarpaulin put up on the Diamond Princess to screen passengers from view as those diagnosed with the virus were moved out to hospitals in Tokyo and neighbouring towns, the health ministry said.
Distraught parents had to be held back by police as they tried to reach their son’s lifeless body as it lay under a tarpaulin in the rain.