In a transferred or figurative sense, it could mean a cloak or a disguise.

This means in a figurative sense that a company should be made up to a place, where one would like to work!

The figurative sense of the word has ground in mechanics comparable to figurative uses of steamroller or battering ram to mean something overwhelming.

A new church in a figurative sense came along in 1846, when the congregation was unable to find a pastor.

Until very recently, the figurative sense of red herring was thought to originate from a supposed technique of training young scent hounds.