How To Use Oilskin In A Sentence
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Stilmore dismounted, then reached into a saddlebag and brought out an object covered in protective oilskin.
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When they come up we can make out on the tiny bridges two figures covered in oilskins, but nevertheless drenched through and looking like drowned rats.
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There are everyday photos in the style of Frank Meadows Sutcliffe of fishermen and their womenfolk, and examples of the smocks and oilskins worn by them.
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In her home-made oilskins held together with gaffer tape, the teenage was the most down-to-earth of sailing students.
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Despite layers of thermal underwear and polar fleeces under my oilskins, I am so cold that I have lost all feeling in my right hand.
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In Monsoon they appear as wide-eyed, god-like creatures dressed in yellow oilskins with water-filled pipes attached.
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They cycled both ways in the rain and the dark without any oilskins or protective gear and arrived back at 5am.
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Winton had been wearing a complete set of thick winter woolens, oilskins, and sea boots, and despite being a strong swimmer had not stood a chance in the heavy sea.
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Sailors wear oilskins in stormy weather.
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As a study in nostalgia it is a gem, right down to the steam trains, sailing boats and 11s.6d. oilskins.
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We climbed into oilskins, life jackets and clip-on safety harnesses, and became fellow shipmates for the day-night crossing.
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As he did, he realised with shock that it wasn't a normal jacket, but an oilskin greatcoat.
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So I donned my wellington boots, put on my waterproof coat and my oilskin hat, grabbed my brolly and went out for a short walk in the rain.
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The oilskins locker is in the passage behind the chart table.
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His captain, Pullen said, wore his oilskins day and night.
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Large drops of rain began to fall, and they laid groundsheets and put up their oilskin tents.
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When he finally hung up his black boots and oilskins last month, Liam had clocked up 42 years as a fireman.
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A yellow oilskin hat and coat hung from a hook on the wall beside the door.
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A team of men in bright yellow oilskins and wellies prepares to winch a salmon cage out of the water.
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Michael kissed Nelly's clear brow, and bestowed his usual "buss," as he called it, on granny's withered cheek; then shouldering his oilskin coat, he took his way towards the landing-place at the mouth of the harbour.
Michael Penguyne Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast
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Mudfog derives an agreeable scent of pitch, tar, coals, and rope – yarn, a roving population in oilskin hats, a pretty steady influx of drunken bargemen, and a great many other maritime advantages.
Sketches by Boz
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She took her oilskin from the hook on the back door, buttoned herself into it and stepped out, still undetected.
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Archive footage shows figures in yellow oilskins, hauling nets, heaving and leaping with silver fish.
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The lifeboat was an open rowing boat manned by local volunteers clad in oilskins.
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A number of the men in question in this incident had been given a complete set of oilskins before embarking in Rossaveal.
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He wore denims and an old oilskin coat, and a seaman's cap shaded calm, expressionless eyes.
THE KEYS OF HELL
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They looked larger than life, alien, with their lank hair and spray-soaked faces and their oilskins and fat kapok lifejackets.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Peter the Post came stumbling in, heaved the door shut and stood there glistening in his oilskins.
THE LONELY SEA
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Despite layers of thermal underwear and polar fleeces under my oilskins, I am so cold that I have lost all feeling in my right hand.
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Large drops of rain began to fall, and they laid groundsheets and put up their oilskin tents.
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I carried Edward's letter in an oilskin pouch tucked inside my tunic.
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One by one they had taken waterproof oilskins and boots from the lighthouse; the last one had apparently locked the outer door behind him.
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It is about wanting to be the sort of person who has a cloakroom groaning with wellington boots and children's oilskins, even if you last went for a walk 10 years ago.
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Over the bedstead (more often than not, by the way, it is composed of four planks of varying lengths and thickness, placed across two trestles) I used first to place my oilskin, then my _p'u-k'ai_, and that little creeper which rhymes with hug did not disturb me much.
Across China on Foot
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Jarvis, huge in his oilskins, like a great yellow telephone box, smiled.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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There are everyday photos in the style of Frank Meadows Sutcliffe of fishermen and their womenfolk, and examples of the smocks and oilskins worn by them.
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So I donned my wellington boots, put on my waterproof coat and my oilskin hat, grabbed my brolly and went out for a short walk in the rain.
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They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
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We climbed into oilskins, life jackets and clip-on safety harnesses, and became fellow shipmates for the day-night crossing.
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So, I donned gloves and oilskins and put my hands to work cleaning out traps alongside my companions.
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We climbed into oilskins, life jackets and clip-on safety harnesses, and became fellow shipmates for the day-night crossing.
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The oilskin clothes, fur gloves and boots are replicas of the Burberry outfits Shackleton used in his ill-fated expedition to cross the Antarctic.
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They looked larger than life, alien, with their lank hair and spray-soaked faces and their oilskins and fat kapok lifejackets.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Does anyone know where I should take my oilskin jacket to be cleaned and de-moulded?
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Grabbing the worn oilskin map out of his hands, Adria peered closely at the markings.
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They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
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Her quiver of arrows had an oilskin cover to keep the arrows in and the snow and damp out.
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Accustomed to weather by now, we pull on our oilskins and continue talking.
Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
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The poop was deserted, save for two helmsmen in streaming oilskins under the half-shelter of the open wheel-house.
CHAPTER XXX
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The worst thing, we agreed, was putting on the oilskins in such conditions, whether on a fishing boat or a yacht heeled well over and battering her way into a difficult sea.
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The man was dressed in a heavy, green oilskin waterproof jacket and trousers.
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When he checked the scene, he discovered the body of an elderly woman, dressed in a dark, oilskin coat with the hood up.
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He then rolled the hide into a bundle, placed the bundle in an oilskin sack, and began leading the way back to their skiff.
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`It threw aside oil and seawater, and spewed men in black oilskins.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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There stood Mr. Pike, his sou'wester doffed, his oilskins streaming rivulets to the floor, while he, dividers and parallel rulers in hand, bent over the chart.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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It was raining heavy on the day and we were wearing oilskins.
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As he stumbled away, wrapped in oilskins, he shouted a few last words to us above the roar: ‘Good luck - and do help yourselves to whatever food and drink you can find.’
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The worst thing, we agreed, was putting on the oilskins in such conditions, whether on a fishing boat or a yacht heeled well over and battering her way into a difficult sea.
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Despite layers of thermal underwear and polar fleeces under my oilskins, I am so cold that I have lost all feeling in my right hand.
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For the eleven-shilling oilskins I was referred to a villainous den in a back street, which the shopman said they always recommended, and where a dirty and bejewelled Hebrew chaffered with me (beginning at 18s.) over two reeking orange slabs distantly resembling moieties of the human figure.
The Riddle of the Sands
