shrouder

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noun

A slaughterhouse worker whose primary job is attaching a cloth or canvas cover to a beef carcass.

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Meanings

nounshrouder (plural shrouders)

plural shrouders

  1. agentAgent noun of shroud: one who shrouds or conceals things.
  2. 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

Origin

From shroud + -er.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

shrouder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shrouder

MLA

“shrouder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shrouder. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shrouder,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shrouder.

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