shroudnoun詞源 1/ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/

• 1

  That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

  • swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
  • 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.
• 2

  Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

  • 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 […]
  • Yet let us goǃ England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.
• 3

  That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

  • Jura answers through her misty shroud.
• 4

  A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

  • The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
  • a vault, or shroud, as under a church
• 5

  nauticaltransportOne 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.

  • 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.
• 6

  One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

• 7

  aerospaceastronauticsbusinessA streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.

shroudverb詞源 2/ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/

• 1

  To cover with a shroud.

  • The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
  • The sliding door, which is fitted with a drop light, is shrouded with bristle-type draught excluders.
• 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.

  • [T]hough this my vvorke, ovvne not vvorth enough to deſerve your patronage, yet ſuch is your benigne humanity, that I am confident you vvill daigne it your protection, under vvhich it vvillingly ſhrovvdes it ſelfe.
  • If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.

shroudnoun詞源 3/ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/

• 1

  The branching top of a tree; foliage.

  • Behold, the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, and with a shadowing shrowd, and of an hie stature, and his top was among the thicke boughes.

shroudverb詞源 3/ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/

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  dialectalTo lop the branches from (a tree).