SCREEDED

Verb

screeded

simple past tense and past participle of screed

Source: Wiktionary


SCREED

Screed, n. Etym: [Prov. E., a shred, the border of a cap. See Shred.]

1. (Arch.) (a) 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. (b) A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.

2. A fragment; a portion; a shred. [Scot.]

Screed, n. Etym: [See 1st Screed. For sense 2 cf. also Gael. sgread an outcry.]

1. A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds.

2. An harangue; a long tirade on any subject. The old carl gae them a screed of doctrine; ye might have heard him a mile down the wind. Sir W. Scott.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ERASE

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