Definition of "shroud"
- 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.
The branching top of a tree; foliage.
A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- verb
To cover with a shroud.
To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
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