A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings. / A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.

(transitive) To cover (an area or object) with canvas.

Obsolete spelling of canvass

Obsolete spelling of canvass

(figuratively) Something with no content, upon which one can easily impose or project one's point of view. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blank, canvas.

(nautical) Having the sails unfurled; under sail. / Living in tents.

(business, management) A diagram mapping the benefits of a company's product or service to the needs and desires of a potential customer.

someone who goes through a region soliciting votes in an election, or conducting a public opinion poll

(figuratively); (obsolete); To debate, to discuss. / To seek or solicit donations, information, opinions, support, etc.; to conduct a survey.

(countable) A seeking or solicitation of donations, information, opinions, support, etc.