Crossword clues for shroud
shroud
- Hide from view
- Cover, hide, etc
- A line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
- A line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- Cloth in which a body is wrapped for burial
- Winding sheet
- Turin attraction
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English scrud "a garment, clothing, dress," from West Germanic *skruthan, from Proto-Germanic *skrud- "cut" (cognates: Old Norse skruð "shrouds of a ship, tackle, gear; furniture of a church," Danish, Swedish skrud "dress, attire"), from PIE *skreu- "to cut" (see shred (n.)).\n
\nSpecific meaning "winding-sheet, cloth or sheet for burial," to which the word now is restricted, first attested 1560s. Sense of "strong rope supporting the mast of a ship" (mid-15c.) is from the notion of "clothing" a spar or mast; one without rigging was said to be naked.
c.1300, "to clothe, to cover, protect," from Old English scrydan, scridan "to clothe, dress;" see shroud (n.). Meaning "to hide from view, conceal" (transitive) is attested from early 15c. Related: Shrouded; shrouding.
Wiktionary
n. 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 (context nautical English) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways. 7 One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate. vb. 1 To cover with a shroud. 2 To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud. 3 To take shelter or harbour.
WordNet
n. a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
(nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind [syn: sheet, tack, mainsheet, weather sheet]
burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped [syn: pall, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes]
v. cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery" [syn: enshroud, hide, cover]
form a cover like a shroud; "Mist shrouded the castle"
wrap in a shroud; "shroud the corpses"
Wikipedia
On a sailboat, the shrouds are pieces of standing rigging which hold the mast up from side to side. There is frequently more than one shroud on each side of the boat.
Usually a shroud will connect at the top of the mast, and additional shrouds might connect partway down the mast, depending on the design of the boat. Shrouds terminate at their bottom ends at the chain plates, which are tied into the hull. They are sometimes held outboard by channels, a ledge that keeps the shrouds clear of the gunwales.
Shrouds are attached symmetrically on both the port and starboard sides. For those shrouds which attach high up the mast, a structure projecting from the mast must be used to increase the angle of the shroud at the attachment point, providing more support to the mast. On most sailing boats, such structures are called spreaders, and the shrouds they hold continue down to the deck. On large sailing ships, however, particularly square-riggers, the shrouds end at the projections (called tops or crosstrees) and their loads are carried into the mast slightly further down by futtock shrouds.
Shroud usually refers to an item, such as a cloth, that covers or protects some other object. The term is most often used in reference to burial sheets, mound shroud, grave clothes, winding-cloths or winding-sheets, such as the famous Shroud of Turin or Tachrichim (burial shrouds) that Jews are dressed in for burial. Traditionally, mound shrouds are made of white cotton, wool or linen, though any material can be used so long as it is made of natural fibre. Intermixture of two or more such fibres is forbidden, a proscription that ultimately derives from the Torah, viz., Deut. 22:11.
A traditional Orthodox Jewish shroud consists of a tunic; a hood; pants that are extra-long and sewn shut at the bottom, so that separate foot coverings are not required; and a belt, which is tied in a knot shaped like the Hebrew letter shin, mnemonic of one of God's names, Shaddai. Early shrouds incorporated a cloth, the sudarium, that covered the face, as depicted in traditional artistic representations of the entombed Jesus or His friend, Lazarus ( John 11, q.v.). An especially pious man may next be enwrapped in either his kittel or his tallit, one tassel of which is defaced to render the garment ritually unfit, symbolizing the fact that the decedent is free from the stringent requirements of the 613 mitzvot (commandments). The shrouded body is wrapped in a winding sheet, termed a sovev in Hebrew (a cognate of svivon, the spinning Hanukkah toy that is familiar under its Yiddish name, dreidel), before being placed either in a plain coffin of soft wood (where required by governing health codes) or directly in the earth. Croesus-rich or dirt-poor, every Orthodox Jew is dressed to face the Almighty on the same terms.
The Early Christian Church also strongly encouraged the use of winding-sheets, except for monarchs and bishops, and their use was general until at least the Renaissance - clothes were very expensive, and they had the advantage that a good set of clothes was not lost to the family. Orthodox Christians still use a burial shroud, usually decorated with a cross and the Trisagion. The special shroud that is used during the Orthodox Holy Week services is called an Epitaphios. Some Catholics also use the burial shroud particularly the Eastern Catholics and traditionalist Roman Catholics.
Muslims as well use burial shrouds that are made of white cotton or linen. The Burying in Woollen Acts 1666-80 in England were meant to support the production of woollen cloth.
A shroud is a burial cloth. Shroud may also refer to: In arts and entertainment:
- Shroud (comics), a fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics universe
- Shroud (novel), by John Banville
- Fumine Sonozaki, a fictional villain in the Japanese TV series Kamen Rider W
- Shroud, in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering
In religion:
- Shroud of Turin, an ancient linen cloth believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ
- Epitaphios (liturgical), a shroud used in the Eastern Orthodox Church during Holy Week
In science and technology:
- Shroud (computing), to obfuscate code, i.e., make it difficult for humans to understand
- Shroud (sailing), a rope that gives support to the masts in sailing ships
- Barrel shroud, a covering attached to the barrel of a firearm
- Ducted fan, in engineering, a surrounding duct that guides airflow through a jet engine or similar machine
- Payload shroud or fairing, a structure used to protect a rocket payload from atmospheric pressure and heating during launch
Shroud is a 2002 novel by John Banville. It is part of the Alexander and Cass Cleave Trilogy along with the novels Eclipse, published in 2000, and Ancient Light, published in 2012.
Usage examples of "shroud".
He is standing knee-deep in some anguineous backwater of New Orleans swampland, feeling the mystic transport of his fellow creatures, the water witches and the Peremelfait, shrouded festively in the ghost-shapes of drowned pirates, decorated with Spanish moss and kudzu.
About ten minutes later Mrs Lillystone opened the door again and came out carrying a number of articles: a small copper, a tin bason, and over her arm a shroud of the cheapest material.
Perched on a jutting eminence, and half shrouded in the bushes which clothed it, the silent fisherman took his place, while his fly was made to kiss the water in capricious evolutions, such as the experienced angler knows how to employ to beguile the wary victim from close cove, or gloomy hollow, or from beneath those decaying trunks of overthrown trees which have given his brood a shelter from immemorial time.
Langdon rocketed downward, on the edge of a billowing shroud of light, feeling like a surfer trying to outrun a thousand-foot tidal wave.
The species of shroud that was wrapped around him had fallen below his loins, and his shoulders and chest and lean arms were hidden under blotches of scaly pustules.
Overhead the hands had already bowsed the swinging yard to the shrouds and were running a cable to the shattered end to act as a brace.
As it did so, from the shrouded group of desert men one started forward to the palanquin, throwing off his burnous and gesticulating with thin naked arms, as if about to commit some violent act.
Two Arabs passed, shrouded in burnouses, with the hoods drawn up over their heads.
This mortality exclosure was deep in the trees, shrouded in darkness and veiled with Spanish moss.
Flame tongues licked the panicked face of an autist near Danlo, and passed to a horologe, whose red robe was suddenly a shroud of fire burning around him.
Drizzt, Wulfgar, and Catti-brie came into Longsaddle a few days later, road weary and still wrapped in a shroud of grief.
Shrouds parted with dismal twangs and the mainmast went over with a tremendous crash, amid a chorus of furious yells.
I believe Yeshua told Malchus to put the Shroud in the Ark of the Covenant.
To those who still lived as freewomen in the matriarchal societies high in the mountaintops, the reason for human females being hunted down was shrouded in mystery.
That southeastern kingdom was shrouded by a long history of rivalry with both Connacht and Meath where lay Tara.