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A motion detector that turns on a light on the shed or on your home facing the shed is always a good idea.

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  1. transitive verb To cause to pour forth: shed tears.
  2. transitive verb To diffuse or radiate; send forth or impart: shed light.
  3. transitive verb To repel without allowing penetration: A duck's feathers shed water.
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  • Then a shed was added to each end, making three sides of a square. —  Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
  • Inside the shed was a rusting pickup truck with pale weedy grass growing up all around it. —  Without Fail by Lee Child
  • Managing the overall fuel load of your shed is a very sensible step. —  Stu's Shed
  • A fire alarm in your shed is a very good idea, but you can't just get any old one. —  Stu's Shed
  • Rusting in peace in the shed were my father's saws, not good enough to be classed as collectible but with my father's name stamped in the handle I didn't have the heart to throw them away. —  ArchivesBlogs
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  1. Middle English sheden, to separate, shed, from Old English scēadan, to divide; see skei- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Alteration of Middle English shadde, perhaps variant of shade, shade; see shade.

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  1. Early modern English also shead, shede; from Middle English sheden, scheden, schoden, shæden (preterit shedde, shadde, schadde, ssedde, shode, past participle shad, i-sched), from Anglo-Saxon sceádan, (sceādan), scādan (preterit scēd, sceód, past participle snáden, scādece), part, separate, distinguish, = Old Saxon skēthan = OFries. skētha, skēda, schēda = Dutch scheiden = Middle Low German schēden = Old High German sceidan, Middle High German G. scheiden, part, separate, distinguish, = Gothic (Moesogothic) skaidan, separate; akin to Anglo-Saxon scīd, English shide, Anglo-Saxon scæth, English sheath, etc.; Teutonic √ skid, part, separate; cf. Lithuanian skedzu, skedu, I part, separate, Latin scindere (perfect scidi), split, Greek σχίζειν, split, σχίζα, a splinter, Sanskrit √ chid, split: see scission, schedule, schism, etc. Cf. sheath, shide, skid, from the same ult. source. The alleged Anglo-Saxon *sceddan, shed (blood), is not authenticated, being prob. an error of reading. The OFries. schedda, NFries. schoddjen, push, shake, German schu̇tten, shed, spill, cast, etc., go rather with English shudder.
  2. Early modern English also shead, shede, also dial. shode; from Middle English sheed, schede, schead, shode, schode, schood, schad, shæd, separation, division, the parting of the hair, the temple or top of the head, from Anglo-Saxon scāde, the top of the head, a division, separation, ge-sceá d, division, separation, = Old Saxon scēth = OFries. skē the, sbēd, scheid = Old High German sceit. Middle High German G. scheit, distinction, division, etc.; cf. D. (haar-)scheel, a tress of hair, = Middle Low German schēdel = Old High German sceitila, Middle High German G. scheitel, the parting of the hair, the top of the head, the hair thereon; from the verb. The noun shed is most familiar in the comp. water-shed.
  3. from Middle English *shed, *shad, in plural shaddys; perhaps a particular use of Middle English shed, written ssed, a Kentish form of shade: see shade. The particular sense is prob. due to association with the different word shud, a shed: see shud.
  4. apparently ult. from Latin scheda, a sheet of paper: see schedule.
  5. Origin obscure.
 

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