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There are 14 different meanings of Shed.

Shed Disambiguation
Automobile
12 products, approx. 79 pages
Shed, a derogatory slang word for an old used automobile of little value, as are "banger", "nail", "skip"
Physical punishment
7 products, approx. 29 pages
The "woodshed treatment" or "taking someone to the woodshed" is an expression for physical punishment, referring to the taking of a child to a shed or barn for a spanking. It can be used metaphorically to refer to severe criticism, particularly from a superior.
Shithead (card game)
2 products, approx. 12 pages
Shed, a name for Shithead (card game)
Stamford Bridge (stadium)
1 product, approx. 10 pages
The Shed End, the South Stand at Stamford Bridge (stadium) at the Chelsea Football Club ground, London, England
Demand response
1 product, approx. 8 pages
Load shed, a Demand response action in building automation systems.
Shed Seven
1 product, approx. 8 pages
Shed Seven, a Britpop band formed in York, England in 1990
Modern architecture
1 product, approx. 7 pages
"Shed" style, a type of modern architecture from the 1960s and 1970s that emphasized multiple slanted roof lines.
Shed
1 product, approx. 6 pages
Bike shed, a shed specially designed for bikes
Watershed
5 products, approx. 5 pages
Shed animals, to sort or divide them. Also used of water, in one sense of watershed as a line dividing drainage basins.
Shed Productions
1 product, approx. 2 pages
Shed Productions, the British television company that produced such shows as Waterloo Road and Footballers' Wives
Shed (weaving)
1 product, approx. 0 pages
Shed (weaving), the area through which weft yarns are woven
Shed, to drop or discard. For example dog hair, snake skin (see Moulting), deer antlers or the leaves of deciduous trees.
"Woodshedding" is a musical term (usually in Jazz) for an intense practice session on a musical composition or a playing technique.
"Saw something nasty in the woodshed", a phrase used repeatedly to explain her strange reclusive behaviour by a character in the comic novel Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (the "something nasty" is never defined). Used in general language in a similar sense.



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