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What are oilskins?

What are oilskins? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A waterproof garment, made from oilskin, used especially at sea.
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His captain, Pullen said, wore his oilskins day and night, and vomited all the time.
Despite layers of thermal underwear and polar fleeces under my oilskins, I am so cold that I have lost all feeling in my right hand.
Archive footage shows figures in yellow oilskins, hauling nets, heaving and leaping with silver fish.
We climbed into oilskins, life jackets and clip-on safety harnesses, and became fellow shipmates for the day-night crossing.
So, I donned gloves and oilskins and put my hands to work cleaning out traps alongside my companions.
The lifeboat was an open rowing boat manned by local volunteers clad in oilskins.

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