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Reed
riːd
Reed definitions
noun
reed
reeds
- a tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground
- used in names of plants similar to the reed and growing in wet habitats, e.g. bur reed
- a tall straight stalk of a reed plant, used especially as a material in making thatch or household items
"a harvest of thatching reeds"
- straw used for thatching
- a rustic musical pipe made from a reed or from straw
"as if thy waves had only heard the shepherd's reed"
- an arrow
- a weak or impressionable person
"the jurors were mere reeds in the wind"
- a piece of thin cane or metal, sometimes doubled, which vibrates in a current of air to produce the sound of various musical instruments, as in the mouthpiece of a clarinet or oboe or at the base of some organ pipes
"a reed instrument"
- a wind instrument played with a reed
- an organ stop with reed pipes
- an electrical contact used in a magnetically operated switch or relay
"the permanent magnet closes the reeds and contacts together"
- a comblike implement (originally made from reed or cane) used by a weaver to separate the threads of the warp and correctly position the weft
- a set of semi-cylindrical adjacent mouldings like reeds laid together