What is "horsecloths"

Usage examples of "horsecloths".

He said he would not have been taken, it was not his fault but the corporal's who had sent him to seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the Russians were there.

Widi them, the broiling heat of the four-flight bedroom, the torn and faded horsecloths on die bed, the earthenware jug of water, and the hard end of bread (bread that some man of substance had no doubt intended for his mount) that the stableman could no longer chew.