Similar words: backing sheet, winding, findings, winding-up, unwinding, self-winding, grinding wheel, winding machine. Meaning: n. burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped.
Random good picture Not show
1. By the 1770s the winding-sheet had almost disappeared, to be replaced by coffin sheets.
2. This would have been more expensive than the winding-sheet but it presented the body in a more natural attitude of repose.
3. It is, arguably, the finest pictorial representation of a seventeenth-century winding-sheet.
4. A black sky rested on these dead streets, as though an immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb.
5. Thus lives she, and all her care is she may die in the springtime, to have store of flowers stuck upon her winding-sheet.
More similar words: backing sheet, winding, findings, winding-up, unwinding, self-winding, grinding wheel, winding machine, armature winding, swing shift, windiness, log sheet, wind instrument, soundings, sound in wind and limb, woodwind instrument, binding, finding, longstanding, landing stage, landing strip, long-standing, standing stone, blinding, grinding, surroundings, unbinding, spending spree, pending status, outstanding stock.