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pilot cloths

pilot cloths is the plural of pilot cloth.

Meaning of pilot cloth

Noun

pilot cloth (countable and uncountable, plural pilot cloths)

  1. A coarse, stout kind of cloth for overcoats.
    • I had not been seated very long ere a man of a certain venerable robustness entered; immediately as the storm-pelted door flew back upon admitting him, a quick regardful eyeing of him by all the congregation, sufficiently attested that this fine old man was the chaplain. Yes, it was the famous...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The pulpit”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Questions about pilot cloths

What is pilot cloths the plural of?
Pilot cloths is the plural of pilot cloth.

Words near pilot cloths in the dictionary

  1. pilot boats
  2. pilot bread
  3. pilot burner
  4. pilot burners
  5. pilot cloth
  6. pilot cloths
  7. pilot coat
  8. pilot coats
  9. pilot engine
  10. pilot engines
  11. pilot experiment

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