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Shroud vs Deadeye - What's the difference?

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In nautical|lang=en terms the difference between shroud and deadeye

is that shroud is (nautical) a rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways while deadeye is (nautical) a wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds.

As nouns the difference between shroud and deadeye

is that shroud is that which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment while deadeye is (nautical) a wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds.

As a verb shroud

is to cover with a shroud.

As an adjective deadeye is

very accurate with shooting or throwing.

shroud

English

(wikipedia shroud)

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
  • * Sandys
    • swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
  • Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a dead man in his shroud
  • That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
  • * Byron
    • Jura answers through her misty shroud .
  • A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
  • * Chapman
    • The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
  • * Withals
    • a vault, or shroud , as under a church
  • The branching top of a tree; foliage.
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  • (nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
  • * See also Wikipedia article on
  • One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover with a shroud.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
  • To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
    • The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.
    The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.
  • * Dryden
    • Some tempest rise, / And blow out all the stars that light the skies, / To shroud my shame.
  • To take shelter or harbour.
  • * Milton
    • If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.

    deadeye

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Very accurate with shooting or throwing.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1961, date=November 2, author=Jerry Green, title=Gross Dwarfed, But Not in Ability, work=The Milwaukee Sentinel citation
    • , passage=Gross, only a 20-year-old junior, is a deadeye passer, a poised runner and a quick-thinking field general.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1999, date=November 15, author=Alan Shipnuck, title=10 Ucla, work=Sports Illustrated citation
    • , passage=Help in that department should come from highly touted freshman Jason Kapono, a 6'7" deadeye shooter who made 211 threes in high school.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2008, author=Gerald Vizenor, title=Father Meme, publisher=University of New Mexico Press, isbn=978-0-8623-4515-8 citation
    • , passage=The old man was a natural sniper, a deadeye shooter even as a boy, and he served with my great uncle in the First World War.}}
  • About a stare: cold; unfriendly.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2004, date=July 28, author=Emma Field, title=Sons and Daughters / The Archie Bronson Outfit, ICA, London, work=The Independent citation
    • , passage=The deadeye stare of the bassist was enough to make any normal person run.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 10, author=Manohla Dargis, title=The real Jodie Foster, 100 percent professional, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Outlandish in its violence and its conceit, "The Brave One" would be an interesting addendum to Foster's career even without its biographical frisson, without the image of Erica holding a gun with a deadeye stare

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds.
  • A very accurate marksman.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1989, author=Tobias Wolff, title=This Boy's Life: A Memoir citation
    • , passage=He taught both my mother and me to shoot, taught my mother so well that she became a better shot than he was--a real deadeye .}}
  • (uncommon) A penchant for noticing a particular thing, or a person who has such a penchant.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1990, author=Ron Chernow, title=The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance citation
    • , passage=He examined the cash balance daily, boasted he could pay off all debts in two hours, had a deadeye for fake figures in scanning a ledger, and personally audited the books each New Year's Day.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1999, author=Ann Rowe Seaman, title=Swaggart: The Unathorized Biography of an American Evangelist citation
    • , passage=Thirty-four years later, she was a tough CEO who went after Jimmy's detractors with a deadeye for the jugular.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2002, author=Lilly Paige White, title=Manny Lesko: The Erotic History of Estelle Antoinette Francine Chevalier, publisher=iUniverse, isbn=978-0595223923 citation
    • , passage=Manny's memory had always been an arch-phenomenon of mimcry (SIC); he was a deadeye for all the destructive details.}}