Pronunciation Noun
reed
- (countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
- (countable) The hollow stem of these plants.
- (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.
- (countable, music) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.
- (countable, weaving) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.
- (countable, historical) A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.
- (uncountable, architecture) Reeding.
- (mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
- Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
- (poetic, obsolete) A missile weapon.
- (archaic, metrology) A measuring rod.
- A Babylonian unit of measure the length of a reed, equal to half a nindan, or six cubits.
- French: roseau
- German: Schilf, Ried, Rohr
- Italian: canna, canniccio, giunco
- Portuguese: junco, cana
- Russian: тростни́к
- Spanish: junco, carrizo, caña
- French: canne, jonc
- German: Schilfrohr
- Italian: canna
- Portuguese: cana, colmo
- Russian: тростни́к
- Spanish: junco
- French: anche
- German: Rohrblatt, Blatt, Blättchen
- Italian: ancia
- Portuguese: palheta
- Russian: язычо́к
- Spanish: caña
- French: instrument à anche
- German: Rohrblattinstrument
- Italian: strumento ad ancia
- French: roseau
reed (reeds, present participle reeding; past and past participle reeded)
Verb- Simple past tense and past participle of ree
reed (plural reeds)
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
Reed
Proper noun
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