shroud

Meanings

Noun

  • That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
  • Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
  • That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
  • A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
  • 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.
  • One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
  • A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch
  • The branching top of a tree; foliage.

Verb

  • To cover with a shroud.
  • To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
  • To take shelter or harbour.
  • To lop the branches from (a tree).

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Origin

  • From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud).
  • From Middle English schrouden (> Anglo-Latin scrudāre), from Middle English schroud (see above).
  • Variant of shred.

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