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shrouder en · NOUN

Etymology

From shroud + -er.

Meanings

1. (agent, form-of) Agent noun of shroud: one who shrouds or conceals things.
   form of shroud
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:

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