Word Finder - reed

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Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.

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The hollow stem of these plants.

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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.

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A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.

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A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.

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A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.

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Reeding.

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A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.

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Straw prepared for thatching a roof.

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A missile weapon.

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A measuring rod.

Papyrus was also known to the Assyrians, who called it " the reed of Egypt."

Tangs show that the shaft was a reed, sockets show that it was of wood.

The rest is open rice-land, alternating with great stretches of grass, reed jungle and bamboo scrub, much of which is under water for quite three months of the year.

The catamaran and the reed boat were known to the Peruvians.

Fens around lough margins may have common reed or reed canary grass.

The four leading Maya signs called kan, muluc, ix, cauac corresponded in their position to the four Aztec signs rabbit, reed, flint, house, but the meanings of the Maya signs are, unlike the Aztec, very obscure.

Late in 1999 a new reed bed was created further north of the hide.

Originally a village of reed huts in the marshes, similar to many of those which can be seen in that region to-day, Nippur underwent the usual vicissitudes of such villages - floods and conflagrations.

A series of clay bunds will be created around the entire reed bed to a height of c 30 cm.

Nor have we ever had a reed bunting or a reed warbler on board.

They can be planted with clumps of reed, reed canary grass or other marginal vegetation.

The line is available in candles, reed diffusers and reed diffuser refills.

Some urged an appeal to the Imperial government; but others, especially men of colonial birth and experience, objected that they would be leaning on a broken reed.

The same may be said of the Gulf states tribes, although they added rafts made of reed.

The modern mouth-organ is the representative of the syrinx, although blown by means of a free reed.

His parliamentary methods were bitterly attacked by his political enemies, who called him "Tsar Reed."

As these began to develop in civilization, they substituted, at least so far as their shrine was concerned, buildings of mud-brick for reed huts.

Reed on the third ballot in the Republican caucus for speaker of the House.

For the protection of the impression, in the 12th and 13th centuries, when it was an ordinary custom to impress the seals on thick cakes of wax, the surrounding margin rising well above the field usually formed a suitable fender; at other times, as in the 14th and 15th centuries, a so-called wreath,1 or twisted shred of parchment, or plaited grass or reed, was imbedded in the wax round the impression.

Song birds are numerous and of many varieties; among them are thrushes, mocking birds, blue birds, robins, wrens, chickadees, warblers, vireos, sparrows, bobolinks (reed birds or rice birds), meadow larks and orioles.

The large lake has 200 booming bitterns in a fringe of reed 400m wide and 7km long.

Where grazing has been limited the number of species is higher, with reed canary-grass and stone bramble.

Reed's chapter on Gibson's brief sally into social psychology makes interesting but tantalizing reading.

The solution is to make your own natural reed diffusers.

The factional strife in the Republican party continued, a number of efforts being made to impeach Governor Harrison Reed (1813-1899).

It is described by Oppert (24), from literary sources, as the great U of 222 susi or 39.96, double of 19.98; from which was formed a reed of 4 great U or 159.8.

Probably there was as much foundation for this legend as for the more rationalistic explanation of William Newton (Display of Heraldry, p. 145), that the fleur-de-lis was the figure of a reed or flag in blossom, used instead of a sceptre at the proclamation of the Frankish kings.

But the Whig party under the lead of John Dickinson, Thomas Mifflin and Joseph Reed was successful in the state, and Pennsylvania contributed greatly to the success of the War of Independence, by the important services rendered by her statesmen, by providing troops and by the financial aid given by Robert Morris.

Reed's Rules were published as a parliamentary manual.

Recreation grounds include a picturesque arboretum, Reed's Wood and Palpey Park.

The inhabitants of Milis manufacture reed baskets and mats, which they sell throughout Sardinia.

Many grasses are almost cosmopolitan, such as the common reed, Phragmites communis; and many range throughout the warm regions of the globe, e.g.

Though the nominal commanders of the army which captured Delhi were in turn Barnard, Reed and Wilson, the policy thus stated by Canning and Lawrence was really carried out by their subordinates - Baird Smith, Nicholson and Chamberlain.

The Boers further added that if the Swazis were relying on the British, they were leaning on a broken reed, and would find themselves left in the lurch.

The embassy, which included two Chinese ministers, an English and a French secretary, six students from the Tung-wan Kwang at Peking, and a considerable retinue, arrived in the United States in March 1868, and concluded at Washington (28th of July 1868) a series of articles, supplementary to the Reed Treaty of 1858, and later known as "The Burlingame Treaty."

Native cloth, brass wares, pot-stone wares, cartwheels, straw and reed baskets, and a small quantity of silk, form the only manufactures.

The wild boar is common in the reed thickets along the rivers and lakes, where it stays during the winter, migrating to the highlands in summer.

Like most true boas, it is of a very gentle disposition and easily domesticates itself in the palm or reed thatched huts of the natives, where it hunts the rats during the night.

Unlike the buccina, cornu and tuba, the other military service instruments of the Romans, the lituus has not been traced during the middle ages, the medieval instrument most nearly resembling it being the cromorne or tournebout, which, however, had lateral holes and was played by means of a reed mouthpiece.

A rather elusive warbler in the trees in the garden turned out to be Blyth's Reed.

The engine also features a reed valve that pulls oil from the cylinder head thereby reducing oil carry-over to the air box.

Another interesting feature it shares with other East European bagpipes is the single reed chanter.

The reed bed was too large for us to see much apart from a few chiffchaffs along the edge.

This combined with better transport facilities opened the door for the almost universal use of either combed wheat reed or water reed.

John Reed was perhaps the best foreign correspondent who ever lived.

This advanced power unit features water cooling, balancing countershaft, exhaust control valve and reed intake for riding pleasure and constant power.

The RS 50 uses a liquid cooled single cylinder two stroke, with reed intake and balancing countershaft.

Lord Reed spoke on the controversial topic of the confidentiality of jury deliberations.

His regional leaders reed hosted Emanuel 's land near the regularity department.

Clarke had gone out with Mr. Reed, I believe, under the pretense of assisting the emigrants.