reed

== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: rēd, IPA(key): /ɹiːd/ Homophones: read, Reid, Reade, Read Rhymes: -iːd === Etymology 1 === From Middle English red, from Old English hrēod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud (“reed”), of uncertain origin. ==== Alternative forms ==== reede (obsolete) ==== Noun ==== reed (countable and uncountable, plural reeds) (countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water. Coordinate term: cane (countable) The hollow stem of these plants. Coordinate term: cane (countable, music) Part of an aerophone musical instrument, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal, which vibrates to produce sound when air passes through it. Hyponyms: single reed, double reed, free reed (countable, music) Short for reed instrument. (countable, weaving) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving. Coordinate term: sley (countable, historical) A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress. (uncountable, architecture) Reeding. (mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting. Straw prepared for thatching a roof. (poetic, obsolete) A missile weapon. (archaic, metrology) A measuring rod. A Babylonian unit of measure the length of a reed, equal to half a nindan, or six cubits. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English reden, from the noun (see above). ==== Verb ==== reed (third-person singular simple present reeds, present participle reeding, simple past and past participle reeded) (transitive) To thatch. To mill or mint with reeding. === Etymology 3 === See ree. ==== Verb ==== reed simple past and past participle of ree === Etymology 4 === From Middle English rede (“abomasum”), from Old English rēada, from Proto-West Germanic *raudō. ==== Alternative forms ==== read ==== Noun ==== reed (plural reeds) (UK, Scotland, dialect) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. === References === === Anagrams === -dere, Eder, Rede, de re, deer, dere, dree, rede == Dutch == === Pronunciation 1 === Rhymes: -eːt, -eː IPA(key): /reː(t)/ Homophones: reedt, reet ==== Verb ==== reed singular past indicative of rijden === Pronunciation 2 === Rhymes: -eːt IPA(key): /reːt/ Homophone: reedt ==== Verb ==== reed inflection of reden: first-person singular present indicative (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative imperative === Anagrams === rede == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== reed alternative form of red (“counsel”) === Etymology 2 === ==== Adjective ==== reed alternative form of red (“red”) 14th c., Chaucer, General Prologue == Plautdietsch == === Etymology === From Middle Low German gerêde, from Old Saxon *girēdi, from Proto-West Germanic *(ga)raidī, from Proto-Germanic *raidaz. === Adjective === reed ready, prepared == West Frisian == === Etymology 1 === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) ==== Noun ==== reed c (plural redens, diminutive reedsje) skate ===== Further reading ===== “reed (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011 === Etymology 2 === From Old Frisian *rēd, from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō. ==== Noun ==== reed c (plural reden, diminutive reedsje) driveway journey ===== Further reading ===== “reed (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011 == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English read, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /rɛːd/ Homophone: reade === Adjective === reed red === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 64