shrouder

English

Etymology

From shroud +‎ -er.

Noun

shrouder (plural shrouders)

1. Agent noun of shroud: one who shrouds or conceals things.
2. A slaughterhouse worker whose primary job is attaching a cloth or canvas cover to a beef carcass.
   • 1976, George Pratt Shultz, Arnold Robert Weber, Strategies for the Displaced Worker: Confronting Economic Change, page 68:

     [T]he last job available at the new West Point plant was that of a "shrouder," involving the laborious and monotonous task of attaching a canvas cover to a beef carcass.

Anagrams

• reshroud