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screed

  [skreed]
Use screed in a Sentence
–noun
1. a long discourse or essay, esp. a diatribe.
2. an informal letter, account, or other piece of writing.
3. Building Trades.
a. a strip of plaster or wood applied to a surface to be plastered to serve as a guide for making a true surface.
b. a wooden strip serving as a guide for making a true level surface on a concrete pavement or the like.
c. 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. a tear or rip, esp. in cloth.
b. a drinking bout.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
6. Scot. to tear, rip, or shred, as cloth.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME screde torn fragment, irreg. (with sc- for sh-) repr. OE scrēade shred
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screed   (skrēd)   
n.  

  1. A long monotonous speech or piece of writing.

    1. A strip of wood, plaster, or metal placed on a wall or pavement as a guide for the even application of plaster or concrete.

    2. A layer or strip of material used to level off a horizontal surface such as a floor.

    3. A smooth final surface of a substance, such as concrete, applied to a floor.


[Middle English screde, fragment, strip of cloth, from Old English scrēade, shred.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

screed 
c.1315, "fragment, strip of cloth," from northern England dialectal variant of O.E. screade (see shred). Meaning "lengthy speech" is first recorded 1789, from notion of reading from a long list.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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