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Awning   /ˈɑnɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Awning  n.  
1.
A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
2.
(Naut.) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.





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"Awning" Quotes from Famous Books



... us that Mansong was anxious that I should depart as soon as possible, before the Moors to the East had intimation of my coming. Bought bullock hides to form an awning to secure us from the spears and arrows of the Surka or Soorka and Mahinga who inhabit the North bank of the river betwixt ...
— The Journal Of A Mission To The Interior Of Africa, In The Year 1805 • Mungo Park
... and the red hips; there were brambles, too, with poor, dried-up blackberries. It reminded me of England. Little green lizards scuttled about, and great black centipedes crawled under my blanket. The sun was blazing at mid-day. Hawk used to rig me up an awning over the ditch with willow-stems ...
— At Suvla Bay • John Hargrave
... traveling their way. Then just at noon they found out what it meant. They came round a sharp curve in the road upon a beautiful grove on the shore of a lake. It was gay with flags and the bright dresses of women and children. Here and there an awning or tent dotted the green spaces. People were bustling about in all directions, laughing and shouting to each other, and every few minutes ...
— Three Young Knights • Annie Hamilton Donnell
... among the Dyaks. The principal part of the ceremony is the fetching of the bride from her father's to the bridegroom's house. The women-folk of the village, who are friends of the bridegroom's family, set out in a boat, gaily decorated with an awning of parti-coloured sheets, and with streamers and flags flying, to an accompaniment of gongs and drums and musical instruments, to fetch the bride ...
— Children of Borneo • Edwin Herbert Gomes
... rain, the trickle of water in the gutters, and the flap of the torn awning in front of the drug store broke the sullen stillness, and then some distance ahead she saw a man and a woman, under an umbrella held close to their heads, coming slowly toward her. The slowness of their walk caught her attention, but the intentness of their talk made them unconscious ...
— Miss Gibbie Gault • Kate Langley Bosher


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