Definitions for the word "reed" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. a.
Red.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. & n.
Same as Rede.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
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).
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
An arrow, as made of a reed.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
Same as Reeding.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
1 a water or marsh plant with a firm stem. B tall straight stalk of this. 2 a strip of cane etc. Vibrating to produce the sound in some wind instruments. B (esp. In pl.) Such an instrument. reeded adj. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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