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Webster 1913 Edition

(skrēd)

Noun.

[Prov. E., a shred, the border of a cap. See

(Arch.)

(a)

A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.

(b)

A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.

A fragment; a portion; a shred.

[Scot.]

Noun.

[See 1st

. For sense 2 cf. also Gael.

sgread

an outcry.]

A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound;

as, martial

screeds

An harangue; a long tirade on any subject.

The old carl gae them a

screed

of doctrine; ye might have heard him a mile down the wind.

Sir W. Scott.

Noun.

With plasterers, the floated work behind a cornice.