Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A variant of shroud.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb Prov. Eng. To trim; to lop.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb UK, dialect To trim; to lop.

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Examples

  • Ain by ain the enemy is defeated, fa'ing like Lucifer in a flamin 'shrood.

    Tam o' the Scoots Edgar Wallace 1903

  • Frae t 'ullets' tree; doon chimleys three there cam a shrood o 'soot.

    Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895

  • An 'yet that was not all, for hard by stood a tall imperial shape o' a woman, all arrayed in white, wi 'a great veil o' finest lace worn o'er a shrood.

    The Lady of the Shroud Bram Stoker 1879

  • But oh, my dear, when I saw the shrood, and kent what it might mean, I expeckit to see the worms crawl round yer feet.

    The Lady of the Shroud Bram Stoker 1879

  • But later, the morn after Rupert used his fire in his room for the first time, I told him what I had dreamt; for, lassie, my dear, I saw ye as bride at that weddin 'in fine lace o'er yer shrood, and orange-flowers and ithers in yer black hair; an' I saw the stars in yer bonny een -- the een I love.

    The Lady of the Shroud Bram Stoker 1879

  • "An 'whea be-owes (5) coffin an' shrood, foul witch?

    Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895

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