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A waterproofed piece of cloth spread on the ground (as under a tent) to protect from moisture
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groundsheet
Word definitions for groundsheet in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a waterproofed piece of cloth spread on the ground (as under a tent) to protect from moisture [syn: ground cloth ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A sheet of waterproof material that is spread on the ground, often beneath a tent, and upon which a person may sit or sleep.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Between two people one poncho was used as a groundsheet and the other was strung up and pinned down with home-made pegs. ▪ If you're basing yourself at one campsite place an old groundsheet or plastic sheet under the tent. ▪ ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
groundsheet \ground"sheet`\ (ground"sh[=e]t`), n. a piece of waterproofed cloth spread on the ground (as under a tent) to protect the occupants from moisture. Syn: ground cloth.
Usage examples of groundsheet.
From the rest of the lamplit gloom his eyes picked out a pallet on the groundsheet of the tent, hooks on the central pole of the tent for clothing and weapons, a chest with her name and rank stenciled on it in the blockier form of Nantukhtar writing.
The rest was carpeted in groundsheets and sleeping rolls, now that they had had time to recover their marching packs and bring the last of the supplies down from the Aiders, with scavenged Fritz blankets for extra pad-cling.
He never slept, but huddled under the camouflaged groundsheet now and again for a necessary breather and a return to full alertness.
We carried tents and groundsheets and sleeping-bags and saucepans and food and axes and everything else one needs in the interior of an unmapped, uninhabitable and inhospitable country.
Turning the beast, she led it back to the field where more folded groundsheets were piled.
When the mediator uncovered his glass, the first thing he and everyone else saw in the Image was Artagel sitting atop a particularly high pile of bedrolls and groundsheets.
The men at the Brens huddled into their brown and green camouflage groundsheets, all their jubilation of ten minutes earlier completely gone.
Unfolded, Coley discovered the saddle was large enough to lie on, as a groundsheet.