Definitions for reeding

• Definition
• Anagrams (163)

reeding reed·ing

Spelling: [ree-ding]

IPA: /ˈri dɪŋ/

Reeding is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 163 anagrams from letters in reeding (deeginr).

Definitions for reeding

noun

1. a set of moldings, as on a column, resembling small convex fluting.
2. ornamentation consisting of such moldings.
3. a number of narrow, vertical grooves on the edge of a coin, medal, etc.
4. the straight stalk of any of various tall grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, growing in marshy places.
5. any of the plants themselves.
6. such stalks or plants collectively.
7. anything made from such a stalk or from something similar, as an arrow.
8. Music. a pastoral or rustic musical pipe made from a reed or from the hollow stalk of some other plant. a small, flexible piece of cane or metal that, attached to the mouth of any of various wind instruments, is set into vibration by a stream of air and, in turn, sets into vibration the air column enclosed in the tube of the instrument. reed instrument.
9. Textiles. the series of parallel strips of wires in a loom that force the weft up to the web and separate the threads of the warp.
10. an ancient unit of length, equal to 6 cubits. Ezek. 40:5.

Idioms

1. a broken reed, a person or thing too frail or weak to be relied on for support:

verb (used with object)

1. to decorate with reed.
2. to thatch with or as if with reed.
3. to make vertical grooves on (the edge of a coin, medal, etc.).

Origin of reeding

First recorded in 1805-15; reed + -ing¹

Examples for reeding

He frequently decorated his flatware with a refined etching or gravure, his hollow ware with reeding.

The calculator must not forget the cost of entering the first warp in a harness, also the reeding.

The mantel is somewhat busy, and a little heavy, yet it has delicate detail and reeding on the sides.

The stiles of the entrance are basically the pilaster type although the reeding within the pilaster is rounded rather than flat.