does anybody here call a tarpaulin a hap ? ...having an argument about it
tarpaulin
Jun 30, 2019
Last reply: 7 years ago
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Most of what are sold a tarpaulins are not.
They are just paulins, not tarred.
Apparently so, see the 4th entry here
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Also 2nd one here
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other party is saying a hebridean hap is clothing '''
Quite possibly. The Collins description describes it as a dialect term, and includes 'to wrap up warmly' and 'a covering of any kind'; origin possibly Norse. The Hebrides were occupied by Vikings in the
9th century.
covering of any kind will do me...thanks
I have noticed that...woven plastic rubbish
Then he's right.
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well in the building industry in the near of scotland we always understood hap to be a tarpaulin.......could only be a scottish thing though.....many a times I have said put a hap over that hole in the roof...many times.....many many many times......many many many many times
but I'm right as well ....
... and if covering something pointed will pierce and let the rain in.
I have a washing machine out the back door under one at the moment god knows what state it will be in when I need it .....
Not a term I have ever heard before. Although I have never lived north of Oxford.
Never heard that but the Americans shorten it to Tarp. Just watch out for the ex military ones with camouflage on them, you may never see it again... grin.
Brian
White has poor old Pauline done to deserve this? Brian
The lady next door gave me a big waterproof sheet.
I said "Ta Pauline".
I'll get me coat!
"It's only a bloody tarpaulin, But I can't find the little green get; I wish they'd make 'em bright orange; I can't find my camouflage net."
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