shroud

English

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Etymology

Old English scrūd, cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʊd

Noun

shroud (plural shrouds)

1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
5. The branching top of a tree; foliage.
6. (nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
   • See also Wikipedia article on Shroud (sailing)
7. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

Translations

dress for the dead

• Armenian: սավան (hy) (savan)
• Dutch: lijkwade (nl) c
• Finnish: käärinliina, kuolinvaate
• French: linceul (fr) m, suaire (fr) m
• German: Leichentuch (de) n
• Greek: σάβανο (el) (sávano) n
• Hungarian: halotti lepel (hu)
• Italian: sudario (it) m

• Kurdish: kefen (ku)
• Maori: puraku (mi)
• Portuguese: mortalha (pt) f, sudário (pt) m
• Russian: саван (ru) (sávan) m
• Scottish Gaelic: anart-bàis (gd) m
• Spanish: sudario (es) m
• Swedish: svepning (sv) c
• Turkish: kefen (tr)

mast support

• Danish: vant (da)
• Dutch: want (nl) n
• Finnish: vantti (fi)
• French: hauban (fr) m
• German: Want (de) f and n
• Hungarian: vantni (hu)

• Italian: sartia (it)
• Manx: aarey (gv) f
• Maori: waewae (mi)
• Norwegian: vant (no)
• Russian: ванты (ru) (vánty) m pl
• Spanish: obenquillo (es) m
• Swedish: vant (sv)

Verb

shroud (third-person singular simple present shrouds, present participle shrouding, simple past and past participle shrouded)

1. To cover with a shroud.
2. To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.

   The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.

   The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.

3. To take shelter or harbour.
   • Milton

     If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.