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noun
Screed  n.  
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.)





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"Screed" Quotes from Famous Books



... man must live, and so I do the nearest thing and the one that pays quickest. I got eighty dollars, now, for that last screed in 'The Reservoir.'" ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 • Various
... missed. Also you told me cheerful falsehoods about my Tribune stories. I know they are no good, and as they are no good, the shorter the better, but I like to be told they are good. Anyway, I sat down at once and wrote a long screed on Vera Cruz and the ...
— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis
... sat down to write to my dear recluse, intending at first to write only a few lines, as she had requested me; but my time was too short to write so little. My letter was a screed of four pages, and very likely it said less than her note of one ...
— Widger's Quotations from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova • David Widger
... no date to the screed nor was it signed; yet the Count put it to his forehead and lips. He knew the writing as he ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace
... tops the rest And holds aloft man's constant quest: Time! Joyless emblem of the greed Of millions, robber of the best Which earth can give, the vulgar creed Has seared upon the night its flaming ruthless screed. ...
— A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass • Amy Lowell
... to me!" he asserted authoritatively, by way of reply to a scornful gesture made involuntarily by Lucien. "So far from finding a publisher obliging enough to risk two thousand francs for an unknown writer, you will not find a publisher's clerk that will trouble himself to look through your screed. Now that I have read it I can point out a good many slips in grammar. You have put observer for faire observer and malgre que. Malgre is a ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac
... eyes. A blue jay began to chatter; and when he had finished his screed, a cock-quail challenged the silence. Very soon the wilderness was uttering all its familiar sounds. Jeff, lying flat on his back, could hear the rabbits scurrying through the chaparral. After an interminable delay his ears caught ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... Maggie; if it's your will, I'll no speak your name. And I hope I hae keepit a' things to your liking in the cottage. If sae, you might gie me a screed o' writing to your brither, sae that when he comes again, he'll be contented, and willing to let me ...
— A Daughter of Fife • Amelia Edith Barr
... preached on selfish sins; The Woman Who Came in with Twins; The poor Man with the Lung Complaint, Stood, while he preached on selfish sins. And still the Man with One Lame Leg Stood there on his imperfect peg And heard the screed on selfish sins— This patient Man ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various


Words linked to "Screed" :   strip, written material, slip, harangue, piece of writing, writing, rant


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