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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A long monotonous speech or piece of writing.
  2. n. A strip of wood, plaster, or metal placed on a wall or pavement as a guide for the even application of plaster or concrete.
  3. n. A layer or strip of material used to level off a horizontal surface such as a floor.
  4. n. A smooth final surface of a substance, such as concrete, applied to a floor.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A piece torn off; a shred: as, a screed of cloth.
  2. n. A long strip of anything; hence, a prolonged tirade; a harangue.
  3. n. In plastering:
  4. n. A strip of mortar about 6 or 8 inches wide, by which any surface about to be plastered is divided into bays or compartments. The screeds are 4, 5, or 6 feet apart, according to circumstances, and are accurately formed in the same plane by the plumb-rule and straight-edge. They thus form gages for the rest of the work, the interspaces being filled out flush with them.
  5. n. A strip of wood similarly used.
  6. n. The act of rending or tearing; a rent; a tear.
  7. To rend; tear.
  8. To repeat glibly; dash off with spirit.
  9. n. A band of paper or other material placed around a piece of cloth to keep the loose end in place, to prevent injury when cords are tied around it in packing, and for trade-mark and ornamental purposes. Generally used in sets of two.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A long discourse or harangue.
  2. n. A piece of writing.
  3. n. A tool, usually a long strip of wood or other material, for producing a smooth, flat surface on, for example, a concrete floor or a plaster wall.
  4. n. A smooth flat layer of concrete or similar material.
  5. v. construction, masonry To produce a smooth flat layer of concrete or similar material.
  6. v. construction, masonry To use a screed (tool).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.
  2. n. A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.
  3. n. Scot. A fragment; a portion; a shred.
  4. n. A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound.
  5. n. An harangue; a long tirade on any subject.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a long monotonous harangue
  2. n. an accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete
  3. n. a long piece of writing

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English screde ("fragment, strip of cloth") (from which also shred), from Old English scrēade (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English screde, fragment, strip of cloth, from Old English scrēade, shred. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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