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shedder|ˈʃɛdə(r)|
[f. shed v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who sheds, in various senses of the verb.
c1388in Wyclif's Sel. Wks. III. 474 Leste Crist dampne ȝowe for traytouris and monquellers and scheders of his blode. 1555Eden Decades i. vii. (Arb.) 91 Cruel enemies and sheaders of the Spanyshe bludde. a1625Fletcher Bloody Brother iv. iii, But your parts in all dues to crying blood For vengeance in the shedder, are much greater. 1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 273 The seventh Inca, whose Name signifies, Shedder of bloody Tears. 1880M. E. Braddon Just as I am xiii, He was never a shedder of blood.
2. spec.
a. A female fish of the Salmonidæ after spawning.
1588Lambarde Eiren. iv. iv. 450 If any person..haue taken there any Salmons or Trouts, out of season, that is, being kippers, or shedders. 1848[see kipper n.1 and a. 1].
b. A name for a crab during the period when it is casting its covering integument or shell.
1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 390.
3. Comb. (sense 2), as shedder-crab, shedder-salmon, shedder trout.
1860Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 3), *Shedder-crab, a crab which has recently cast his shell, also called a Soft Crab. 1884E. P. Roe Nat. Ser. Story v. in Harper's Mag. Apr. 733/2, I was still..fishing,..and fastened on my hook a peeled shedder crab.
1558Act 1 Eliz. c. 17 §1 That no person..shall..take and kyll any..*shedder Salmons, or *shedder Trowtes. 1787Best Angling (ed. 2) 139 Any kepper or shedder salmon. |