What is "tarpaulined"

Usage examples of "tarpaulined".

A couple of members of the maintenance crew were sweeping the air with large sponges to catch stray drops escaping the tarpaulined area, but one jet of blood had traveled twenty feet, and another coveralled worker was hurrying to intercept it with a catch basin.

Then the craft got stuck on the slipway, and they were all heaving to get her moving the last few metres into the ocean, until, suddenly, she was afloat, and Ibra was raising the sails, and Kalal was at the prow, hidden behind the tarpaulined weight of their belongings.

In her mind, I thought as the driver cracked his whip and we watched the tarpaulined rear of the carriage jostle off and disappear into the grey, she left us long ago, on Butterfly Day.

It was heavily tarpaulined but you could see the sleek, almost vicious, lines of it.

So we tarpaulined it according to his instructions, and there it lies.