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shed(2) (iou)



shed noun2. . L15.
[App. var. of SHADE noun.]
A single-storey esp. wooden structure, erected separately or as a lean-to, and serving for storage, shelter for animals etc., or use as a workshop. Freq. prefixed by specifying word. L15.
cart-shed, cowshed, tool-shed, woodshed, etc.
b. A large roofed structure with one side open, for the storage and maintenance of locomotives etc. M19.
c. An open-sided building for sheep-shearing, wool-baling, and cattle-milking. Austral. & NZ. (Earliest in woolshed s.v. WOOL noun.) M19.
ring the shed: see RING verb2.
A hut, a cottage, a poor dwelling. Also, something giving shelter or protection; the hiding place, lair, or nest of an animal. Chiefly poet. (now rare). E17.
a. A lid. Only in E17.
b. A covering in a telegraph-line insulator in the form of an inverted cup. M19.
Physics. A unit of area equal to 1024 barn (1052 sq. metre) (cf. BARN noun1 4). rare. M20.
Comb.: shedhand Austral. & NZ an unskilled assistant in a shearing shed; shedload colloq. a large amount or number (freq. a euphemism for shitload); shed master a person in charge of a locomotive shed (sense 1b above) for the storage and maintenance of locomotives; shed roof a roof with only one slope as in a lean-to; shed-roofed adjective having a shed-roof structure; shed-room US a structure attached to a house and serving as a room.
? Recorded in ME in place-names and surnames.