shroud
That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protectsThat which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
Meaning
8 sensesThat which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
Grabtuch, Leichentuch
са́ванsávan, пелена́pelená, покро́вpokróv
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.
Want
ва́нтыvánty
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.
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Origin
From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą (“shroud,From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą (“shroud, dress, attire”). Compare Proto-Germanic *skrūdijaną (“to shroud”).
Variant of shred.
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