A heavy cloth spread over a coffin or tomb

• A funeral shroud used during rites

Something that covers or darkens like a cloak

• A thick cloud of smoke, dust, or gloom

A liturgical cloth, especially the stiff square covering a chalice

• Also, cloths used on the altar

To cover or drape as with a pall

• To overshadow or envelop

A pivoted catch that engages a ratchet for one-way motion

• A similar stop in other mechanisms

To stop or hold by means of a pawl

To become dull or wearisome; to lose appeal

• To cloy through excess