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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Canvas \Can"vas\, n. [OE. canvas, canevas, F. canevas, LL canabacius hempen cloth, canvas, L. cannabis hemp, fr G. ?. See {Hemp}.] 1. A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led. --Tennyson. 2. a A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work b A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil. History . . . does not bring out clearly upon the canvas the details which were familiar. --J. H. Newman. 3. Something for which canvas is used: a A sail, or a collection of sails. b A tent, or a collection of tents. c A painting, or a picture on canvas. To suit his canvas to the roughness of the see --Goldsmith. Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude. --Macaulay. 4. A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make --Grabb. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Canvas \Can"vas\, a. Made of pertaining to or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as a canvas tent. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: canvas n 1: heavy closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents) [syn: {canvass}] 2: an oil painting on canvas [syn: {canvass}] 3: the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account; "the crowded canvas of history;" "the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound" [syn: {canvass}] 4: a tent made of canvas [syn: {canvas tent}, {canvass}] 5: a large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel [syn: {sail}, {canvass}, {sheet}] 6: the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete; "the boxer picked himself up off the canvas" [syn: {canvass}] v 1: solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign [syn: {canvass}] 2: get the opinions of people, for example [syn: {poll}, {canvass}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Canvas, WV Zip code(s): 26662
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