shed

rup-verb

shed first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative shadi or shade, past participle shidzutã)

shed first-singular present indicative (canonical)
shadi (indicative present singular third-person)
shade (indicative present singular third-person)
shidzutã (participle past)
shedu (alternative)

From Latin sedeō. Compare Romanian ședea, șed.


shed

To shed something in two.

To shed the sheep from the lambs.

A metal comb shed her golden hair.

We are shed with each other by an enormous distance.

c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece
If there be any thing that knitteth himself to the ilk middle point [of a circle], it is constrained into simplicity (that is to say, into unmovablity), and it ceaseth to be shed and to flit diversely.

1460–1500, The Poems of Robert Henryson
The northern wind had shed the misty clouds from the sky;

1635, "Sermon on Philippians III, 7, 8", in Select Practical Writings of David Dickson (1845), Volume 1, page 166 Internet Archive
Lest […] ye shed with God.

(transitive, obsolete, UK, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.

You must shed your fear of the unknown before you can proceed.

When we found the snake, it was in the process of shedding its skin.

White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand.

1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

She called on all the marathoners to go to Staten Island to help with the clean-up effort and to bring the clothes they would have shed at the start to shelters or other places where displaced people were in need.

2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times, retrieved 2012-11-02:

(ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.

Did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

(transitive, archaic) To pour; to make flow.

I didn't shed many tears when he left me.

A tarpaulin sheds water.

The crash occurred in a steep-sided cutting lined with self-seeded deciduous trees that were shedding their leaves, following unusually heavy rain and high winds in the 12 hours beforehand.

2023 November 1, Paul Clifton, “RAIB recommends actions to tackle leaves on the line”, in RAIL, number 995, page 10:

to shed light on

Can you shed any light on this problem?

What tho’ the moon—the white moon
Shed all the splendour of her noon,
Her smile is chilly—and her beam,
In that time of dreariness, will seem
(So like you gather in your breath)
A portrait taken after death.

1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:

(transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light).

Sence now that he by the right honde of god exalted is, and hath receaved off the father the promys off the holy goost, he hath sheed forthe that which ye nowe se and heare.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts ij:

(obsolete, transitive) To pour forth, give off, impart.

(obsolete, intransitive) To fall in drops; to pour.

Her hair […] is shed with gray.

(weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.

(music, slang) Alternative form of woodshed

en-verb

shed (third-person singular simple present sheds, present participle shedding, simple past and past participle shed or (nonstandard) shedded)

sheds (present singular third-person)
shedding (participle present)
shed (participle past)
shed (past)
shedded (nonstandard participle past)
shedded (nonstandard past)

afwerpen

to cast off, to let fall, be divested of

vedlik

hair, feathers, skin, etc., as an animal

From Middle English scheden, schede, from Old English scēadan, scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between; remove from association or companionship; distinguish, discriminate, decide, determine, appoint; shatter, shed; expound; decree; write down; differ”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþan, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþaną (compare West Frisian skiede, Dutch and German scheiden), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt- (“to cut, part, divide, separate”), from *skey-.
See also Irish scian (“knife”), Lithuanian skėsti (“to spread”), skíesti (“to separate”), Old Church Slavonic цѣдити (cěditi, “to filter, strain”), Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”), Old Armenian ցտեմ (cʻtem, “to scratch”), Sanskrit च्यति (cyáti, “he cuts off”)). Related to shoad, shit, sheath.


shed

(weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.

(obsolete) A distinction or dividing-line.

(obsolete) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.

Coordinate term: barn

(nuclear physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters.

sheds (plural)
shode (alternative)
shead (alternative)
shede (alternative)

From Middle English sched, schede, schad, from a combination of Old English scēada (“a parting of the hair, top of the head”) and Old English ġesċēad (“distinction, reason”).


shed

wagon shed

wood shed

garden shed

There are numerous sheds in the now grass-grown yard, most of which now house threshing machines and farm carts instead of locomotives and rolling stock, although [in] the roofs of some are gaping holes.

1941 June, “Notes and News: The Derelict Glyn Valley Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 279–280:

A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.

A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.

(British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.

Never saw that but we did stand and watch a pair of Sheds (156 and 165) speed north on a loaded steel.

2000 November 12, Bruce Garbutt, “Re: DRS to Cardiff (was Re: Tractor via Eddiestown)”, in uk.railway (Usenet):

(British, rail transport, informal) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.

→ Scottish Gaelic: seada

→ Welsh: sièd

strehë

temporary structure to shelter something

Dialectal variant of a specialized use of shade.


shed

On the Dava line, apart from the banking assistance given by the 4-4-0s, the traffic is handled by the standard class "5" 4-6-0s, known among the drivers as "Hikers"; these engines are shedded at Inverness and Perth.

1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23:

Three 14XX class 0-4-2Ts were allocated to Bath Road for the Clevedon branch and one was sub-shedded at Yatton for a week at a time, during which period it amassed an aggregate mileage of nearly 1,400 miles.

1961 May, Mark B. Warburton, “Yatton and its branches to Clevedon and Wells”, in Trains Illustrated, page 277:

(transitive) To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.

en-verb

shed (third-person singular simple present sheds, present participle shedding, simple past and past participle shedded)

sheds (present singular third-person)
shedding (participle present)
shedded (participle past)
shedded (past)