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English → English (WordNet) Definition: futtock shroud futtock shroud n : shroud that is part of a ship's rigging
English → English (gcide) Definition: Futtock shrouds Futtock \Fu"ttock\, n. [Prob. corrupted fr. foothook.] (Naut.) One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel. [1913 Webster] Futtock plates (Naut.), plates of iron to which the dead-eyes of the topmast rigging are secured. Futtock shrouds, short iron shrouds leading from the upper part of the lower mast or of the main shrouds to the edge of the top, or through it, and connecting the topmast rigging with the lower mast. --Totten. [1913 Webster] Shroud \Shroud\ (shroud), n. [OE. shroud, shrud, schrud, AS. scr[=u]d a garment, clothing; akin to Icel. skru[eth] the shrouds of a ship, furniture of a church, a kind of stuff, Sw. skrud dress, attire, and E. shred. See Shred, and cf. Shrood.] 1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster] Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds. --Sandys. [1913 Webster] 2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. “A dead man in his shroud.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud. [1913 Webster] Jura answers through her misty shroud. --Byron. [1913 Webster] 4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The shroud to which he won His fair-eyed oxen. --Chapman. [1913 Webster] A vault, or shroud, as under a church. --Withals. [1913 Webster] 5. The branching top of a tree; foliage. [R.] [1913 Webster] The Assyrian wad a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a shadowing shroad. --Ezek. xxxi. 3. [1913 Webster] 6. pl. (Naut.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts. [1913 Webster] 7. (Mach.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate. [1913 Webster] Bowsprit shrouds (Naut.), ropes extending from the head of the bowsprit to the sides of the vessel. Futtock shrouds (Naut.), iron rods connecting the topmast rigging with the lower rigging, passing over the edge of the top. Shroud plate. (a) (Naut.) An iron plate extending from the dead-eyes to the ship's side. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. (b) (Mach.) A shroud. See def. 7, above. [1913 Webster]

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