PILOT CLOTH • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Pilot cloth

... back against the bulkhead with his hands buried deeply in Tom's borrowed pockets. He felt much more at home in pilot cloth ...

— The Slave Of The Lamp • Henry Seton Merriman

... you take my advice, you'll go into my room, and there, hanging against the wall, you'll find my winter shooting jacket, I had it made last year when I went up to Maine, of pilot cloth, lined throughout with flannel. It will fit you just as well as your own, for we're pretty much of a size. Frank, there, will wear his old monkey jacket, the skirts of which he razeed last winter for the very ...

— Warwick Woodlands - Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago • Henry William Herbert (AKA Frank Forester)