Winding-sheet

Quick meaning: Winding-sheet is a noun meaning Dated form of winding sheet.

Meaning

Dated form of winding sheet.

Example Sentences

The painter had set himself, with, I doubt not, fair moral intent, to exhibit a skeleton wrapped up in a winding-sheet; […]

Thinglets fit only to wrap candles in, or make winding-sheets in Lent for pilchards, or keep butter in the market-place from melting.

The dead have come to take the living. The dead in winding-sheets, the regimented dead on horseback, the skeleton that plays a hurdy-gurdy.

It is so woven into the very warp and woof of our nature, that till we are wrapped in our winding-sheets we shall never hear the last of it.

Word Forms

• winding-sheets

Synonyms for winding-sheet

Depending on context, synonyms include shroud, pall, cerement.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cerement, pall, shroud, bedsheet, bed sheet, casket.

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