ground cloth

1. 1.

   a waterproofed piece of cloth spread on the ground (as under a tent) to protect from moisture

   Synonymsgroundsheet

   Broaderpiece of cloth

Questions about ground cloth

What does ground cloth mean?

ground cloth means "a waterproofed piece of cloth spread on the ground (as under a tent) to protect from moisture".

What is another word for ground cloth?

Close synonyms include groundsheet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ground cloth a common word?

ground cloth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.