Definitions for shedder

shedder shed·der

Spelling: [shed-er]
IPA: /ˈʃɛd ər/

Shedder is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in shedder (ddeehrs).

Definitions for shedder

noun

  1. a person or thing that sheds.
  2. a lobster, crab, etc., just before it molts.

Origin of shedder

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at shed2, -er1

Examples for shedder

The shedder of blood no longer lives to pursue his vocation, and justice is satisfied.

It takes the live minnow readily, also shedder crawfish, and will not refuse earthworms, cut butcher meat or liver.

In the same way it is not evidently irrational, if men decided that a woman, like a priest, must not be a shedder of blood.

But he was little more than a shedder of blood; he accomplished nothing, and I name him only as one of the figures of our beach.

Blood must not stain its walls; no shedder of gore could be its architect.

And this is another spell against which the shedder of blood for ever strives in vain.

I could not give him up as a shedder of blood—he was in my hand.

Where is the divine injunction against the shedder of man's blood to rest?

Word Value for shedder
Scrable

12

Words with friends

11

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