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shrouder

shrouder noun: a slaughterhouse worker whose primary job is attaching a cloth or canvas cover to a beef carcass. Also the agent noun of shroud.

Noun

shrouder (plural shrouders)

  1. A slaughterhouse worker whose primary job is attaching a cloth or canvas cover to a beef carcass.
    • [T]he last job available at the new West Point plant was that of a "shrouder," involving the laborious and monotonous task of attaching a canvas cover to a beef carcass.1976, George Pratt Shultz, Arnold Robert Weber, Strategies for the Displaced Worker: Confronting Economic Change, page 68

Also used as

shrouder is also the agent noun of shroud.

Forms of shrouder

pluralshrouders

Origin of shrouder

From shroud + -er.

Questions about shrouder

What does shrouder mean?
Shrouder means a slaughterhouse worker whose primary job is attaching a cloth or canvas cover to a beef carcass.
What part of speech is shrouder?
Shrouder is a noun.
What is the plural of shrouder?
The plural of shrouder is shrouders.

Words near shrouder in the dictionary

  1. shroud-laid
  2. shroud-waving
  3. shrouded
  4. shrouded gear
  5. shrouded gears
  6. shrouder
  7. shrouders
  8. shroudest
  9. shroudeth
  10. shroudie
  11. shroudies

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