nicht in Planen einpacken

14:31 Mar 28, 2019 

OK, I submit! I guess its a word that has developed over the decades (centuries?). But can't help feeling there's another words which hasn't come to mind yet.

07:10 Mar 28, 2019 

And my bicycle is under a tarpaulin in the garden. It's about 5 square metres, so not big enough for a lorry or barge.

16:03 Mar 27, 2019 

"Nobody has intended to use tarpaulins for wrapping so far." I don't know what that is supposed to mean. I use tarps to cover my lumber and even wrap it in tarps to keep it dry from the rain.

15:44 Mar 27, 2019 

tarpaulin noun /taːˈpoːlin/
(a sheet of) a kind of strong waterproof material
der Persenning, die Plaue
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/de/worterbuch/englisch-deut...

tarpaulin noun
1mass noun Heavy-duty waterproof cloth, originally of tarred canvas.
‘a stretch of roof is covered with tarpaulin’
historical A sailor's tarred or oilskin hat.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/tarpaulin

Definition of tarpaulin
1 : a piece of material used especially for protecting exposed objects or areas : tarp The hatchways of some armed vessels are but poorly secured in bad weather. … They were merely spread over with an old tarpaulin, cracked and rent in every direction.— Herman Melville
2 dated : sailor
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tarpaulin

tarpaulin (n.)
c. 1600, evidently a hybrid from tar (n.1) + palling, from pall "heavy cloth covering" (see pall (n.)); probably so called because the canvas sometimes is coated in tar to make it waterproof. Originally tarpawlin, tarpawling, etc., the spelling settled down early 18c.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/tarpaulin#etymonline_v_4404

15:30 Mar 27, 2019 

got only 2 Ghits. Other translations with canvas, canvas cover, plastic cover, cover, plastic, or plastic foil have thousands of Ghits.

Conclusion: Nobody has intended to use tarpaulins for wrapping so far.

14:08 Mar 27, 2019 

Is this an American text? The idea of wrapping a bicycle in a tarpaulin (in BE) seems grotesque to me. Plastic, yes but to me a tarpaulin is something much larger for covering a lorry or on a barge.