winding-sheet

1. 1.

   burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

   Synonymspallshroudcerementwinding-clothes

   Broaderburial garment

Questions about winding-sheet

What does winding-sheet mean?

winding-sheet means "burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped".

How many syllables are in winding-sheet?

winding-sheet has 3 syllables: win-ding--sheet. The stress falls on "win".

What is another word for winding-sheet?

Close synonyms include pall, shroud, cerement, winding-clothes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is winding-sheet a common word?

winding-sheet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.