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▸ noun:  That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
▸ noun:  Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
▸ noun:  That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
▸ noun:  A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
▸ noun:  (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
▸ noun:  One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
▸ noun:  (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
▸ verb:  To cover with a shroud.
▸ verb:  To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
▸ verb:  To take shelter or harbour.
▸ noun:  The branching top of a tree; foliage.
▸ verb:  (transitive, UK, dialect) To lop the branches from (a tree).

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