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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 817 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SHED .. (I) A small hut, shelter or outhouse, especially one with a " shed roof " or " lean-to," a roof with only one set of rafters, falling from a higher to a See also:

lower See also:wall, like an See also:aisle roof. " Shed " is also the See also:term applied to a large roofed shelter open at the sides for the storage of goods, See also:rolling-stock, locomotives, &c., on a railway or See also:dock-See also:wharf. According to See also:Skeat, the word is a Kentish See also:form of " shade," " See also:shadow," in 0. Eng. steed, sceadu, cf. Ger. Schatten; the ultimate origin is the See also:root ska-, to See also:cover, seen in Gr. 1K16, shadow, UK1iv'i, See also:tent, shelter, See also:stage, whence Eng. " See also:scene "; the Eng. " See also:sky " comes from a closely allied root sku, also to cover, cf. See also:Lat. obscurus. (2) To spill, to scatter, to See also:cast off; originally the word seems to have meant to See also:part, to See also:divide, a use only surviving in " See also:watershed." The 0.

Eng. verb was sceddan, in See also:

Mid. Eng. shceden, to divide, See also:separate. " Shed in the sense of to spill has, however, by some etymologists been taken to be a separate word from that meaning to part; it would in that See also:case appear to be connected with 0.

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