pilot cloth

British  

noun

1. a type of thick blue cloth used esp to make sailor's coats

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Example Sentences

He felt much more at home in pilot cloth than in cashmere.

From The Slave of the Lamp by Merriman, Henry Seton

A skirtless loose rough coat, made of Flushing or pilot cloth.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

His short sturdy frame was clothed in a slop suit of pilot cloth, and a plain cap with a heavy peak completed the picture.

From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Walmsley, Hugh Mulleneux

He put on a coat of pilot cloth, unhooked the barometer, and stowed it away in a capacious pocket.

From South Sea Tales by London, Jack

The men who stand in groups in the street and on the wharf are all clad in blue guernseys or duck smocks and trousers of pilot cloth or canvas.

From A Chapter of Adventures by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)