noun.
One of a set of strong ropes extending from a ship's mastheads to each side of the ship to support the mast.
To cover as with a garment or veil; especially, to clothe (a dead body) for burial.
To clothe one's self in; put on.
To cover or deck as with a garment; overspread; inclose; envelop.
To cover so as to disguise or conceal; veil; obscure.
To shelter; screen; hide.
To put one's self under cover; take shelter.
To gather together, as beasts do for warmth.
noun.
A garment; a covering of the nature of a garment; something which envelops and conceals; clothing.
noun.
A winding-sheet; a piece of linen or other cloth in which a dead body is enveloped; hence, by extension, a garment for the dead, as a long white robe or gown, prepared expressly for the burial.
noun.
Protection.
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A place of shelter; covert; retreat.
noun.
A place under ground, as the burrow of an animal, a vault, the crypt of a church, etc.: sometimes in the plural, used collectively as a singular.
noun.
One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water-wheel which form the sides of the buckets.
To lop the branches from; trim, as a tree.
noun.
A cutting, as of a tree or plant; a slip.
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A bough; a branch; hence, collectively, the branching top or foliage of a tree.
noun.
In machinery: A rim or flange cast on the ends of the teeth of a gear-wheel, so that they appear to be formed entirely or partly in the solid periphery of the wheel.
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In an undershot wheel, the cylindrical surface at the inner circumference or bottom of the bucket.
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The name given to the legendary portrait of Christ which is supposed to have been imprinted on the shroud in which he was wrapped in the tomb.