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Screed

Screed Meaning & Definition
Screed Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Screed?

[n] a long piece of writing
[n] a long monotonous harangue

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See Also | harangue | piece of writing | rant | ranting | writing | written material

Screed In Webster's Dictionary

\Screed\ (skr[=e]d), n. [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. [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.

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