† tarpaulian, n. and a. Obs.
Forms: 7 tarpailian, -paulian, -pollian, 8 -polian, -pawlian.
[from next, after adjs. and ns. in -ian.]
a. n. = next, 2. b. adj. = next, 3 b.
| a 1656 Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 124 The number of horse⁓boyes, and foot-boyes, and of hangers-on, and the tarpailians in the corn-ships,..he thinks to be greater..than that of the souldiers came unto. c 1660 W. G. Ode to Gresham College in Weld Hist. Roy. Soc. (1848) I. 80 Every Tarpaulian shall then with ease Saile any ship to the Antipodes. 1673 Hickeringill Greg. F. Greyb. 140 Shall not your pilot, holla, whoop? And rowze Tarpollians that lye sleeping. 1719 D'Urfey Pills II. 60 Hear the noise of the Tarpawlian Boys; Port, Port, Port. |