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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
shrowd .
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Examples
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Now under the US they are again living under shrowds cant drive and are being held under a religious thumb.
safer 2006
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Another walkes vpon the hatches, another climbes the shrowds, another stands vpon the maine yard, and another in the top of the shippe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Hands mounting the shrowds and manning the ship, [and] at our stepping out of the Boat, We were saluted, with another Vive le Roi.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 November 1779 1973
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He caused them to cut in two one of the poles of the frigate's masts, and fixed it with the rope which had served to tow us, and of which we made stays and shrowds.
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The difficulties were increased by a fresh breeze which began to blow, whistling among the shrowds, dashing the sails this way and that, and rending them with horrid split, and such whir as may have visited the dreams of Milton, when he imagined the winnowing of the arch-fiend's van-like wings, which encreased the uproar of wild chaos.
II.9 1826
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The difficulties were increased by a fresh breeze which began to blow, whistling among the shrowds, dashing the sails this way and that, and rending them with horrid split, and such whir as may have visited the dreams of Milton, when he imagined the winnowing of the arch-fiend's van-like wings, which encreased the uproar of wild chaos.
The Last Man 1826
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The difficulties were increased by a fresh breeze which began to blow, whistling among the shrowds, dashing the sails this way and that, and rending them with horrid split, and such whir as may have visited the dreams of Milton, when he imagined the winnowing of the arch-fiend's van-like wings, which encreased the uproar of wild chaos.
The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824
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The outriggers and ropes used for shrowds, &c. are all stout and strong.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784
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The ship appeared to be a complete mass of ice; the shrowds were so incrusted with it, as to measure in circumference more than double their usual size; and, in short, the experience of the oldest seaman among us had never met with any thing like the continued showers of sleet, and the extreme cold which we now encountered.
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Another walkes vpon the hatches, another climbes the shrowds, another stands vpon the maine yard, and another in the top of the shippe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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