Shroud

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

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Work

Domain

Arts and letters

Knowledge cost

2

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

On a sailing ship, the shrouds are the standing rigging which holds the mast up from side to side. There is frequently more than one shroud on each side of the boat.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Shroud (sailing)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia