mackinaw

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He noted that the camp manager had provided mackinaws and extra blankets against the weather, was experimenting with the camp diet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bundled in sheepskins, mackinaws and fur-lined boots, owners and skippers assembled there last week with 40 racing boats.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well-secured against Iceland weather, each of his men has been issued fur caps, wool-lined mackinaws, heavy galoshes, gloves, five pairs of shoes, heavy underclothes and socks in addition to regular work clothes and uniforms.

From Time Magazine Archive

And yet," thought I, as we set out rapidly for the village in the valley, "the difference between the poetry of mackinaws and Great Northern locomotives is merely a matter of perspective.

From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.

Log after log slid down the chute to float behind the boomsticks; and at night the loggers trooped home, soaked to the skin, to hang their steaming mackinaws around the bunkhouse stove.

From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Sinclair, Bertrand W.