English Dictionary

shroud

/ʃɹaʊd/

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.

The shroud covered the body of the deceased.

意味（1）

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

swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds

意味（2）

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

Yet let us goǃ England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.

意味（3）

That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

Jura answers through her misty shroud.

意味（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.

意味（5）

(nautical) 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.

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.

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

(astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.