Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that sheds, as a long-haired animal or a molting snake.
- noun A lobster or crab that is shedding or has just shed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who sheds, pours out, or spills.
- noun In zoology, that which sheds, casts, or molts; especially, a lobster or crab which is shedding its shell, or has just done so and is growing a new one.
- noun An adult female salmon after spawning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, sheds.
- noun (Zoöl.) A crab in the act of casting its shell, or immediately afterwards while still soft; -- applied especially to the edible crabs, which are most prized while in this state.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Agent noun ofshed ; one who sheds. - noun A
crab in the act of casting itsshell , or immediately afterwards while still soft.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an attacker who sheds or spills blood
Etymologies
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Examples
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Already a serial shedder of attachments, she again abandons present circumstances, but this time shifts course and gives pause to consider her past.
MOTHER AND CHILD; riveting & affecting | Obsessed With Film 2010
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Manish Swarup/Associated Press Villager Samunder Singh Sharma looks out from his house beside an unused wheat shedder in Munimpur, on the outskirts of New Delhi.
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So, if he have commerce with her, haply she will conceive by him and her son be a hypocrite, a man of wrath and a shedder of blood.
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On the other hand, we do have a dog who is a projectile shedder.
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On the other hand, we do have a dog who is a projectile shedder.
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On the other hand, we do have a dog who is a projectile shedder.
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On the other hand, we do have a dog who is a projectile shedder.
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On the other hand, we do have a dog who is a projectile shedder.
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On the other hand, we do have a dog who is a projectile shedder.
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On the other hand, we do have a dog who is a projectile shedder.
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