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shedder
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 agent noun of shed; one who sheds. 2 A crab in the act of casting its shell, or immediately afterwards while still soft.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shedder \Shed"der\, n. One who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood; a shedder of tears. (Zo["o]l.) 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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an attacker who sheds or spills blood; "a great hunter and spiller of blood" [syn: spiller ]
Usage examples of shedder.
He had always been a shedder, but what had once been light flurries had grown into full-fledged blizzards.
This chivalrous consideration on his part caused some little disappointment to the shedder of the tears, but he could not be expected to know that.
They received an answer that Atahualpa would have an unfortunate end, because he was such a cruel tyrant and shedder of so much human blood.
Slayer and the Slain, the Shedder of Blood and the Avenger of Blood are lost in the same darkness.
Brahmin collects on the ground, for so many thousand years must the shedder of that blood be tormented in hell.
At any rate the goddess was born -- shedder of the lightnings even from her birth.
I speak reverently of the divine Meneptah, the Shedder of Light, but I do not marvel that he is no more willing to deliver over to Mesu one color of gold than another.
In her oft-expressed view as a professional cleaning woman, the only good fur shedder was a dead one.
And, chatter, hop, skip, they were sent, In a buzz of young company glee, Their natural music, swift shoal To the next easy shedders of pence.
And as her mind reviewed the past she shuddered, as the peasants at Sairmeuse had done, when she thought of the fatality which had pursued the shedders of innocent blood.
Hatch stopped at the chalkboard, scanning the prices for the various grades of lobster: shedders, hard-shelled, chickens, selects, and culls.
Hatch stopped at the chalkboard, scanning the prices for the various grades of lobster: shedders, hard-shelled, chickens, selects, and culls.