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Shedder   Listen
noun
Shedder  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood; a shedder of tears.
2.
(Zool.) 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 while in this state.





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"Shedder" Quotes from Famous Books



... mammoths, her young joy, Still by the reckoning infants among men, Had done the deed to strike the Titan host In envy dumb, in envious heart elate: These two combining strength and craft had snared, Enmeshed, bound fast with thongs, discreetly caged The blood-shedder, the terrible Lord of War; Destroyer, ravager, superb in plumes; The barren furrower of anointed fields; The scarlet heel in towns, foul smoke to sky, Her hated enemy, too long her scourge: Great Ares. And they gagged his trumpet mouth When they had seized on his implacable spear, ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... He loveth mercy, And the famine is not yet gone; That He hateth the shedder of blood And He slayeth us ...
— A Man and a Woman • Stanley Waterloo
... "Mind me, 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 ...
— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller
... the captive to his company, who demanded that he should be slain with the sword. "A short shrift for the mad dog," they clamoured, "who knows neither mercy nor pity. This is the source of the war. This is the shedder of blood. Smite the head from his body, and the victory is in your hands." Eldof made answer that Hengist should have the law, good law and just. He bound him fast in fetters, and delivered him to King Aurelius. The king chained him, hands and feet, and set him in a strong ...
— Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut • Wace


Words linked to "Shedder" :   aggressor, assaulter


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