Definitions for screeds

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screeds screed

Spelling: [skreed]

IPA: /skrid/

Screeds is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in screeds (cdeerss).

Definitions for screeds

noun

1. a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
2. an informal letter, account, or other piece of writing.
3. Building Trades. a strip of plaster or wood applied to a surface to be plastered to serve as a guide for making a true surface. a wooden strip serving as a guide for making a true level surface on a concrete pavement or the like. a board or metal strip dragged across a freshly poured concrete slab to give it its proper level.
4. British Dialect. a fragment or shred, as of cloth.
5. Scot. a tear or rip, especially in cloth. a drinking bout.

verb (used with or without object)

1. Scot. to tear, rip, or shred, as cloth.

Origin of screeds

1275-1325; Middle English screde torn fragment, irregular (with sc- for sh-) representing Old English scrēade shred

Examples for screeds

No word yet from Commentary (which has devoted a grand total of one screed to the hunger strikers thus far).

There was no date to the screed nor was it signed; yet the Count put it to his forehead and lips.

This screed, remarkable as it was, had no mystery for Goodwin.

Now lets have that screed again, Tom, and Ill have a go at translating it.

Professors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, author of the screed, The Israel Lobby, are right about that.

The media took notice: My screed appeared in New York magazine and on various gossip blogs.

I offered him a shilling if he could "screed me aff effectual calling."

And he knew her—the Her of the screed brought only that day by Ali.

I am sending this as an antidote for my doleful Sunday screed.

I have no leisure now for this screed, mother; read it to me later, an you will.