Category:Screed

Screed, n. Etym: [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 Screed, n. Etym: [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.