= winding-sheet, n. Also †burying-sheet, †shrouding-sheet.

As a rendering of Latin sindon, the word was often understood (even before it became obsolete in sense 1) in the original Greek and Latin sense…

The napkin which was about Christ's head in the tomb; hence, a shroud or winding-sheet. Also attributive sudary cloth.

= winding-sheet, n. 1.

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

A long cloak or garment; a shroud.

A piece of this fabric used for various purposes. As a shroud, spec. that in which the body of Christ was wrapped. Also in Italian form ‖sindone.

The white cloth or sheet in which a corpse is laid out for burial; a winding-sheet.

a winding sheet.

Almost always in plural: Waxed wrappings for the dead; loosely, grave-clothes generally. Rarely in singular = cerecloth; winding-sheet, shroud…

Any piece of cloth used in a church or a church service, such as an altar cloth, purificator, corporal, etc.; (as a mass noun) fabric used for such…

a winding-sheet.

(a) a pall; a shroud, a winding sheet; (b) a head-covering worn by Jews for prayer (rare).

A burial garment; a shroud.

An object that winds or is wound round; a coil or coiled object; †a curved, circular, or twining pattern, ornament, piece of material, etc.

U.S. In the terminology of undertakers: a shroud.