shroud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃraʊd/
ipa: /ʃɹaʊd/
rhymes: -aʊd
Forms: form: shrouds
Etymology: From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).
Senses: examples: text: swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
ref: 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments:
text: Every time we came a research area, we had to pause while the scientists threw grey shrouds over prototypes that I wasn’t to see.
ref: 2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian:
glosses: That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
examples: text: O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,
From off the battlements of any tower, […]
Or bid me go into a new-made grave
And hide me with a dead man in his shroud […]
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: Yet let us goǃ England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make a knot on the thread, it will hinder the soul of the deceased on its passage to eternity.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, chapter V, in Taboo and the Perils of the Soul (The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion; II), third edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 310:
text: This is Radio Clash, you don't need that funeral shroud
ref: 1981, “This Is Radio Clash”, performed by The Clash:
glosses: Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
examples: text: Jura answers through her misty shroud.
ref: 1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
glosses: That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
examples: text: The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
ref: c. 1618, George Chapman, Hymns of Homer:
text: a vault, or shroud, as under a church
ref: 1554, John Withals, A Dictionarie in English and Latine:
glosses: A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
examples: text: Then - a shock of water, a wild rush of boiling foam, and I was clinging for my life to the shroud, ay, swept straight out from it like a flag in a gale.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: 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.
glosses: One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
Synonyms: sindon
Derived terms: barrel shroud
futtock shroud
shroud knot
shroud-laid
shroud-waving