The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides,
While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides."
Tatler, No. 238. Oct. 17. 1710.
This might be applied to an oiled cape, but I think the passage quoted by MR. CORNEY (Vol. ii., p. 523.) signifies something carried over the head.
By the way, the "Description of a City Shower" contains one of the latest examples of ache as a dissyllable:—
"A coming shower your shooting corns presage,
Old aches throb, your hollow tooth will rage."
H.B.C.
U.U. Club, Jan.