paulinn.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Pauling, a covering for a cart or waggon. Linc.]

1859 R. B. Marcy Prairie Traveler 83 There are not always a sufficient number of air-tight water-casks to fill a wagon-bed, but a tent-fly, paulin, or wagon-cover can generally be had.

1864 J. N. Craig in War of Rebellion (U.S. War Dept.) (1893) 1st Ser. XLII. ii. 582 The knapsacks and paulins must be so packed and arranged as to offer no impediment to the service of the guns.

1903 Cheyenne (Wyoming) Daily Leader (Souvenir ed.) 16/1 The man who had so often..lain down on mother earth wrapped in a blanket or under a ‘paulin’, looked up.

1955 W. Foster-Harris Old West iii. 79 On the cantle behind were his blanket and tarpaulin (then usually called a ‘paulin’ and not as now a ‘tarp’).

2000 Countryside & Small Stock Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Nov. 53 Lay the bale on a pallet with the round side up, and spike a cheapo 6′ x 8′ plastic paulin (commonly called ‘tarps’ these days) to it, using foot-long spikes.