shed
/ʃɛd/ noun C2- An opening between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
- An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
Plural sheds
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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It was about six o’clock in the evening; an opal-colored light, through which an autumnal sun shed its golden rays, descended on the blue ocean.
It seemed to her a terrible thing that she could not shed a tear for Matthew, whom she had loved so much and who had been so kind to her, Matthew who had walked with her last evening at sunset and was now lying in the dim room below with that awful peace on his brow.
Kitty was the only one who shed tears; but she did weep from vexation and envy.
A STAG, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hid himself in a shed among the oxen.
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