Word Meanings - SHROUDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The shrouds. See Shroud, n., 7.

Related words: (words related to SHROUDING)

• SHROUD
  A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts. (more info) clothing; akin to Icel. skru the shrouds of
• SHROUDED
  Provided with a shroud or shrouds. Shrouded gear , a cogwheel or pinion having flanges which form closed ends to the spaces between the teeth and thus strengthen the teeth by tying them together.
• SHROUDING
  The shrouds. See Shroud, n., 7.
• SHROUDLESS
  Without a shroud.
• SHROUDY
  Affording shelter. Milton.
• SHROUD-LAID
  Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under Cordage.
• UNSHROUD
  To remove the shroud from; to uncover. P. Fletcher.
• ENSHROUD
  To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud. Churchill.
• BESHROUD
  To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen.
• DISENSHROUDED
  Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled. The disenshrouded statue. R. Browning.