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.

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