reed

IPA: rˈid

(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.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
A surname from Old English, a spelling variant of Reid.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
A village and civil parish in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3636).
A number of places in the United States.
A town in Desha County, Arkansas.
An unincorporated community in Henderson County, Kentucky.
A township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
An unincorporated community in Freeman, Crawford County, Wisconsin.

Examples of "reed" in Sentences

And that's a thin reed of hope in an oil-covered swamp.
It is, to paraphrase yourself, absurd lore, but the reed is there.
The outer "reed" is not a sound-producing device, but a return spring.
And after his reed is sterilized (with alcohol, I presume) it will too.
Shortly thereafter, having sung about the column, and the fire upon it that burns “unto the honor of God”, he stops again, receives the reed from the acolyte, and with one of the three candles, lights the Paschal candle.