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Benight :: Benight (v. t.) To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.

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..

Shroud :: Shroud (v. i.) To take shelter or harbor.

Ratlins :: Ratlins (n. pl.) The small transverse ropes attached to the shrouds and forming the steps of a rope ladder.

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing..

Shrouded :: Shrouded (a.) Provided with a shroud or shrouds.

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment..

Beshroud :: Beshroud (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen..

Lanyard :: Lanyard (n.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc..

Disenshrouded :: Disenshrouded (a.) Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled.

Chrisom :: Chrisom (n.) A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil..

Swifter :: Swifter (n.) The forward shroud of a lower mast.

Scotchman :: Scotchman (n.) A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear.

Channel :: Channel (n.) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks..

Weather :: Weather (a.) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc..

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) 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.

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