Meaning of Shroud | Babel Free

Definitions

1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
2. The branching top of a tree; foliage.
3. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
4. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
5. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
6. One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
7. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
8. A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.

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Examples

“swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds”

“Every time we came a research⟳ area, we had to pause while the scientists threw grey shrouds over prototypes that I wasn’t to see⟳.”

“O, bid me leap⟳, rather than marry⟳ Paris, From off the battlements of any tower, […] Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide⟳ me with a dead man in his shroud […]”

“Yet let⟳ us goǃ England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.”

“The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make⟳ a knot on the thread, it will hinder the soul of the deceased on its passage to eternity.”

“This is Radio Clash, you don't need⟳ that funeral shroud”

“Jura answers through her misty shroud.”

“The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.”

“a vault, or shroud, as under a church”

“Then - a shock⟳ of water, a wild rush⟳ of boiling foam, and I was clinging for my life to the shroud, ay, swept straight out from it like⟳ a flag in a gale.”

“Behold, the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, and with a shadowing shrowd, and of an hie stature, and his top was among the thicke boughes.”

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