shed2 (shed)

[ Houses not inhabited, as shoppis, celars, shaddys , warehouses, stables, wharfes, kranes, tymbre hawes. Arnold's Chron. (1502), ed. 1811, p. 72. Courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters than in tap's try halls And courts of princes. Milton , Comus, 1. 323. But when I touched her, lo! she, too, Fell into dust and nothing, and the house Became no better than a broken shed . Tennyson, Holy Grail. 2. A large open structure for the temporary storage of goods, vehicles, etc.: as, a shed on a wharf; a railway- shed; an engine- shed. These [wagons] filled the inn-yards, or were ranged side by side under broad-roofed sheds. Lowell , Cambridge Thirty Years Ago. shed3t, n. [Appar. ult. scheda , a sheet of paper: see schedule .] A sheet. [Rare.] Scheda 5. To let or cause to flow out; let fall; pour out; spill: used especially in regard to blood IMG:content-0826.png:[blocks in formation] The catching of the shebbel or Barbary salmon, a species of shad, is a great industry on all the principal rivers of the coast [of Morocco), and vast numbers of the fish, which are often from 5 to 15 pounds in weight, are dried and salted. Encyc . Brit ., XVI. 834. shebeck (shē'bek), n. Same as rebec .