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Canvas vs Waistcloth - What's the difference?

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In nautical|lang=en terms the difference between canvas and waistcloth

is that canvas is (nautical) sails in general while waistcloth is (nautical) a covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.

As nouns the difference between canvas and waistcloth

is that canvas is a type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings while waistcloth is a cloth or garment worn around the waist.

As a verb canvas

is to cover an area or object with canvas.

canvas

English

(wikipedia canvas)

Noun

(en-noun) (see usage notes)
  • A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 556.
    • The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers, and wraps for meat, as for the best quality of ordinary table and shirting linen. \
  • A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
  • A basis for creative work.
    • The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies .
  • (computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
  • (nautical) sails in general
  • A tent.
    • He spent the night under canvas .
  • A painting, or a picture on canvas.
    • (Goldsmith)
  • * Macaulay
    • Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude.
  • A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
    • (Grabb)

    • Usage notes

    The plural is used in the UK and most UK-influenced areas.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To cover an area or object with canvas.

    • waistcloth

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cloth or garment worn around the waist.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1791, author=Alexandre (fils) Dumas, title=The Son of Clemenceau, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Two rows of slate beds, three of which only were occupied; two men and a boy, nude save a waistcloth ; over their heads--sluggishly swayed by the air the new-comer had carelessly admitted--their clothes were hung like shapeless shadows. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=Frank T. Bullen, title=The Cruise of the Cachalot, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He was dressed in all the dignity of a woollen shirt, with a piece of fine "tapa" for a waistcloth , feet and legs bare. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Joseph Altsheler, title=The Hunters of the Hills, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Fresh leaves had been stripped from a bush and a tiny fragment or two indicated that the Ojibway had torn a piece from his deerskin waistcloth to fasten over the leaves. }}
  • (nautical) A covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.
    • (Webster 1913)