Definitions from Wiktionary (Reed)
▸ noun: (countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
▸ noun: (countable) The hollow stem of these plants.
▸ noun: (countable, music) Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.
▸ noun: (countable, music) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.
▸ noun: (countable, weaving) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.
▸ noun: (countable, historical) A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.
▸ noun: (uncountable, architecture) Reeding.
▸ noun: (mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
▸ noun: Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
▸ noun: (poetic, obsolete) A missile weapon.
▸ noun: (archaic, metrology) A measuring rod.
▸ noun: A Babylonian unit of measure the length of a reed, equal to half a nindan, or six cubits.
▸ verb: (transitive) To thatch.
▸ verb: To mill or mint with reeding.
▸ noun: (UK, Scotland, dialect) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
▸ noun: A surname from Old English, a spelling variant of Reid.
▸ noun: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
▸ noun: A village and civil parish in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3636).
▸ noun: A number of places in the United States.
▸ noun: A town in Desha County, Arkansas.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Henderson County, Kentucky.
▸ noun: A township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Freeman, Crawford County, Wisconsin.
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▸ noun: (countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
▸ noun: (countable) The hollow stem of these plants.
▸ noun: (countable, music) Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.
▸ noun: (countable, music) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.
▸ noun: (countable, weaving) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.
▸ noun: (countable, historical) A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.
▸ noun: (uncountable, architecture) Reeding.
▸ noun: (mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
▸ noun: Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
▸ noun: (poetic, obsolete) A missile weapon.
▸ noun: (archaic, metrology) A measuring rod.
▸ noun: A Babylonian unit of measure the length of a reed, equal to half a nindan, or six cubits.
▸ verb: (transitive) To thatch.
▸ verb: To mill or mint with reeding.
▸ noun: (UK, Scotland, dialect) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
▸ noun: A surname from Old English, a spelling variant of Reid.
▸ noun: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
▸ noun: A village and civil parish in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3636).
▸ noun: A number of places in the United States.
▸ noun: A town in Desha County, Arkansas.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Henderson County, Kentucky.
▸ noun: A township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Freeman, Crawford County, Wisconsin.
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beating-reed instrument,
Walter Reed,
ryegrass,
bent,
bur-reed,
small reed,
common reed,
tropical reed,
grass,
ribbonweed,
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