2. To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering
or envelope.
White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand.
Mortimer.
SHED
Shed, n.
1. A parting; a separation; a division. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.] They say also that the manner of making the shed of newwedded wives' hair with the iron head of a javelin came up then likewise. Sir T. North.
2. The act of shedding or spilling; — used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
3. That which parts, divides, or sheds; — used in composition, as in watershed.
4. (Weaving)
Defn: The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.
SHEDDER
Shed"der, n.
1. One who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood; a shedder of tears.
2. (Zoöl.)