the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The shrouds. See shroud, n., 7.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The sides of a water-wheel which form the ends of the buckets.
n. Same as shroud, 7.
Word Usage
"He went out, and when afternoon came he returned, took a billhook from the woodman's shed, and with a ladder climbed into the lower part of the tree, where he began lopping off -- "shrouding," as they called it at"