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Definition of Reed

Reed Red. Same as Rede. The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis). A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe. An arrow, as made of a reed. Straw prepared for thatching a roof. A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube. One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine; also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ. A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten. A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting. Same as Reeding. Related Definitions: Also, An, And, Arrow, As, Attached, Bamboo, Bassoon, Batten, Beating, Between, Blasting, Breath, By, Cane, Certain, Charge, Clarinet, Coarse, Common, Compressed, Containing, Double, Especially, Fiat, Flat, For, Forming, Fourth, Frame, Given, Harmonium, Having, Hollow, Igniting, In, Instrument, Is, It, Joint, Jointed, Lathe, Loom, Made, Many, Melodeon, Metal, Mouthpiece, Musical, Name, North, Oboe, Of, Often, One, Or, Organ, Parallel, Pass, Pastoral, Piece, Pipe, Plant, Powder, Prepared, Produce, Red, Rede, Reed, Reeding, Rennet, Roof, Ruminant, Rustic, Same, See, Seraphine, Set, Single, Slender, Sley, Small, Some, Stomach, Straw, Stripe, Such, Swinging, Tall, Thatching, The, Their, Thin, To, Train, Tube, Up, Various, Vibration, Warp, Weft, Which, Wood

Reed Quotations Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? Kahlil Gibran The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. Aesop I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good. Linda Evans

Reed Translations reed in Dutch is riet reed in French is roseau reed in German is Schilf, Reed reed in Spanish is junco, ca a

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