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WINDING SHEET

Definition: WINDING SHEET

WINDING SHEET

1. A sheet in which a corpse is wound or wrapped.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: WINDING SHEET

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Interment

Graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth; cerement.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: WINDING SHEET

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: WINDING SHEET

Language Translations for "WINDING SHEET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

qefin (cerecloth, cerements, grave clothes, shroud). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كفن (enshroud, grave clothes, lay out, pall, shroud). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

саван (cerement, grave clothes, shroud), покров (canopy, grave clothes, mantle, shroud). (various references)

   

Czech

  

rubáš (grave clothes, shroud). (various references)

   

French

  

linceul. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תכריך (bundle, cloak, robe, roll, shroud). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szemfedõ (shroud). (various references)

   

Italian

  

lenzuolo funebre (cerement). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lheiney vaaish (shroud), lheiney feayr, brelleein verriu, brelleein oanluckee, brelleein ny merriu (shroud). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

indingway eetshay

   

Romanian

  

linţoliu (cerement, Pall), giulgiu (cerement, Pall, shroud, veil). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

саван (grave clothes, grave-clothes, shroud, winding-sheet). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pokrov (antimacassar, hearse cloth, shroud). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mortaja (grave clothes, mortice, mortise, shroud). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

svepning (grave clothes, shroud). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

mumun kenarındaki mum damlaları, kefen (cerement, cerements, grave clothes, shroud). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: WINDING SHEET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-h-i-i-n-n-s-t-w"

-2 letters: whitenings.

-3 letters: destining, indigenes, indigents, nightside, whinniest, whitening.

-4 letters: dentines, desinent, dinghies, dingiest, eighties, einstein, enditing, entwined, entwines, ginniest, hedgiest, heisting, indigene, indigens, indigent, ingested, intwined, intwines, nighties, nineties, seething, sennight, sheening, sheeting, shending, shinnied, signeted, sinewing, sweeting, wedgiest, weighted, wenniest, whiniest, whinnied, whinnies, whisting, whitened, whitings, widening, windiest, windings, wingiest.

-5 letters: deities, dentine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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