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

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment..

Chain :: Chain (n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels..

Disenshrouded :: Disenshrouded (a.) Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled.

Shroud :: Shroud (v. t.) To lop. See Shrood.

Chrisom :: Chrisom (n.) A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.

Enshroud :: Enshroud (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud..

Swiftfoot :: Swifter (v. t.) To tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer..

Black :: Black (a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds..

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree..

Collar :: Collar (n.) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured..

Dead-eye :: Dead-eye (n.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye..

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing..

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet..

Shrouded :: Shrouded (imp. & p. p.) of Shrou.

Backstay :: Backstay (n.) A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast..

Beshroud :: Beshroud (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen..

Shroudless :: Shroudless (a.) Without a shroud.

Shrouding :: Shrouding (n.) The shrouds. See Shroud, n., 7..

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