shroud

Pronunciation: /ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/

The English word “shroud” has 12 meanings listed here.

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).

Etymology

From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą (“shroud, dress, attire”). Compare Proto-Germanic *skrūdijaną (“to shroud”). Cognate with Old Norse skrúð, Swedish skrud (“shroud”), Danish and Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).

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