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Winding-sheet. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Winding-sheet [f. WINDING vbl. sb.1 + SHEET sb.1]

1   1.  A sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial; a shroud.

2 c. 1420.  ? Lydg., Assembly of Gods, 420. As he had bene a goste came in wyndyng shete.

3 1547.  in Feuillerat, Revels Edw. VI. (1914), 21. One wyndyng shite of Incarnacion Lawnd strypide with crossis Crymson satten.

4 15[?].  Down by ane Rever, 54, in Dunbar’s Poems (S.T.S.), 306. Thy windene scheit is nocht in weir.

5 1603.  Dekker, Wond. Year, C 3 b. A thousand Coarses, some standing bolt vpright in their knotted winding sheetes.

6 1624.  Capt. J. Smith, Virginia, II. 35. They … rowle them in mats for their winding sheets.

7 1723–4.  Burgh Rec. Stirling (1889), II. 357. A coffine … and a winning sheet.

8 1746.  Hervey, Medit. (1767), 1. 72. Your Nobility arrayed in a Winding-sheet; your Grandeur mouldering in an Urn.

9 1869.  Tozer, Highl. Turkey, II. 92. The spectre had sworn by his winding-sheet … that he would do him no harm.

10   Comb.  1603.  Dekker, Wond. Year, D 2 b. These winding-sheete-weauers.

11   b.  transf. and fig.

12 1593.  Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., II. v. 114. These armes of mine shall be thy winding sheet: My heart (sweet Boy) shall be thy Sepulcher.

13 1625.  Bacon, Ess., Viciss. Things (Arb.), 569. The great Winding-sheets, that burie all Things in Obliuion, are two; Deluges, and Earth-quakes.

14 1669.  J. Owen, Serm. 2 Sam. xxiii. 5, Wks. 1851, IX. 414. Let us … be content to see all our comforts in their winding-sheet every day.

15 1757.  Gray, Bard, 50. Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward’s race.

16 1817.  Shelley, Rev. Islam, IX. xxii. Disturbing not the leaves which are her winding-sheet.

17 1864.  Lowell, Fireside Trav., 141. Dead cedars, in winding-sheets of long gray moss.

18 1875.  Manning, Mission Holy Ghost, ii. 59. He raised you from death, and loosed you from your winding-sheet of habitual sin.

19   2.  A mass of solidified drippings of grease clinging to the side of a candle, resembling a sheet folded in creases, and regarded in popular superstition as an omen of death or calamity.

20 1708.  Brit. Apollo, No. 17. 2/1. Letters, Winding Sheets, &c. in a Candle.

21 1819.  Keats, Party of Lovers, 16. There’s a large cauliflower in each candle. A winding sheet.

22 1824.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. Aunt Martha. She … sees … gifts in her finger-nails, letters and winding-sheets in the candle.

23 1882.  Mary Hallock Foote, in Century Mag., Nov., 113/1. The candles in tin sconces against the wall burned dim, with long winding-sheets clinging to them.

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