English
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Etymology
Old English scrūd

Pronunciation
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-a�d|-a�d

Noun
en-noun

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. Nautical A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.

#*See also Wikipedia article on w|Shroud (sailing)

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

Translations
trans-top|dress for the dead
Finnish: käärinliina, kuolinvaate
trans-mid
Spanish: mortaja f, sudario m
trans-bottom

trans-top|mast support
Finnish: vantti
Italian: sartia
trans-mid
Spanish: obenquillo m
trans-bottom

Verb
en-verb

1. To cover with a shroud.
2. idiomatic: To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.

#:The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.

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