- Shroud-laid
- Shroud-laid Shroud"-laid`, a. Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under {Cordage}. [1913 Webster]
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shroud-laid — [shroud′lād′] adj. made of four strands laid together with a right handed twist: said of a rope … English World dictionary
shroud-laid — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective of a rope : composed of four strands and laid right handed with a heart or core * * * /shrowd layd /, adj. Cordage. noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right handed with or without a heart. [1790 1800] * * * shroud laidˈ … Useful english dictionary
shroud-laid — /shrowd layd /, adj. Cordage. noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right handed with or without a heart. [1790 1800] * * * … Universalium
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shroud-laid — /ˈʃraʊd leɪd/ (say shrowd layd) adjective (of a rope) made with four strands and (usually) a central core or heart …
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shroud — [OE] Shroud originally meant simply ‘garment’ – a sense which survived into the early modern English period (‘My princely robes are laid aside, whose glittering pomp Diana’s shrouds supplies’, Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe, Dido Queen of… … Word origins
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