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Webster 1913 Edition


Screed

Screed

(skrēd)
,
Noun.
[Prov. E., a shred, the border of a cap. See
Shred
.]
1.
(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.
2.
A fragment; a portion; a shred.
[Scot.]

Screed

,
Noun.
[See 1st
Screed
. For sense 2 cf. also Gael.
sgread
an outcry.]
1.
A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound;
as, martial
screeds
.
2.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Screed

SCREED

,
Noun.
With plasterers, the floated work behind a cornice.

Definition 2024


screed

screed

English

Noun

screed (plural screeds)

  1. A long discourse or harangue.
    One of the more regular correspondents to the club was an Everton fan, who’d send in an abusive screed each time Albion were due to play on Merseyside. He directed this at Atkinson, urging him not to select his “monkeys” for the game.
  2. A piece of writing.
  3. A tool, usually a long strip of wood or other material, for producing a smooth, flat surface on, for example, a concrete floor or a plaster wall.
  4. A smooth flat layer of concrete or similar material.

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Verb

screed (third-person singular simple present screeds, present participle screeding, simple past and past participle screeded)

  1. (construction, masonry) To produce a smooth flat layer of concrete or similar material.
  2. (construction, masonry) To use a screed (tool).

Quotations

  • 1999, U.S. Dept. of the Army, Concrete, masonry, and brickwork: a practical handbook, page 131
    The sequence of the operation is: screed, vibrate, then screed again. If forms are in good alignment and firmly supported, and if the concrete has the correct workability, []

References

  1. “Spotlight on... Screed” Take Our Word For It, Issue 1, July 20, 1998

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