Sentence:  When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass <WSD>clout</WSD>, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A swaddling cloth.