Awning

1. n. That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.
2. n. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.