pavesade
English
Etymology
From French [Term?]. See pavise.
Noun
pavesade (plural pavesades)
- A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pavesade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)