"paulin" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortening of tarpaulin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "paulins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "paulin (plural paulins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1938, Victor M. Linoff, Saddle and Western Gear Catalog, page 121:",
          "text": "Plain white paulins, made of duck without seams. Furnished with snaps and rings or grommets.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956, L. K. Strouse, Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, volume 294, page 114:",
          "text": "The complainant's tents and paulins were manufactured and packed according to detailed specifications.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Richard Irving Dodge, edited by Wayne R. Kime, The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, page 207:",
          "text": "The sawmill was expected soon, and in the meantime fatigue details were erecting picket huts for temporary use — rows of raw logs stood on end in trenches forming rectangles, with roofs also of wood, covered by paulins and daubed with a layer of dirt.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tarpaulin."
      ],
      "id": "en-paulin-en-noun-p8HhObjF",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "tarpaulin",
          "tarpaulin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, nautical) A tarpaulin."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "paulin"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortening of tarpaulin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "paulins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "paulin (plural paulins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1938, Victor M. Linoff, Saddle and Western Gear Catalog, page 121:",
          "text": "Plain white paulins, made of duck without seams. Furnished with snaps and rings or grommets.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956, L. K. Strouse, Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, volume 294, page 114:",
          "text": "The complainant's tents and paulins were manufactured and packed according to detailed specifications.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Richard Irving Dodge, edited by Wayne R. Kime, The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, page 207:",
          "text": "The sawmill was expected soon, and in the meantime fatigue details were erecting picket huts for temporary use — rows of raw logs stood on end in trenches forming rectangles, with roofs also of wood, covered by paulins and daubed with a layer of dirt.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tarpaulin."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "tarpaulin",
          "tarpaulin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, nautical) A tarpaulin."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "paulin"
}