Shrouding - Law Dictionary Search Results

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Shroud-stealing. If any one, in taking up a dead body, steal the shroud or other apparel, it will be felony; for the property therein remains with the executor, or whoever was at the charge of the funeral, 3 Inst. 110; 1 Hale, P.C. 535...

Enshroud

To cover with or as with a shroud to shroud...

Backstay

A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship slanting a little aft to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast...

benight

To involve in darkness to shroud with the shades of night to obscure...

Beshroud

To cover with or as with a shroud to screen...

Cat harping

One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards...

Crosstrees

Pieces of timber at a masthead to which are attached the upper shrouds At the head of lower masts in large vessels they support a semicircular platform called the ldquotoprdquo...

Dead eye

A round flattish wooden block encircled by a rope or an iron band and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard used to extend the shrouds and stays and for other purposes Called also deadmans eye...

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