Shrouding

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The sides of a water-wheel which form the ends of the buckets.
  • noun. Same as shroud, 7.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The shrouds. See shroud, n., 7.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of shroud.
  • Word Usage
    "He went out, and when afternoon came he returned, took a billhook from the woodman's shed, and with a ladder climbed into the lower part of the tree, where he began lopping off -- "shrouding," as they called it at"
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    shroud