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reeded, ppl. a.|ˈriːdɪd| [f. reed v. and n.1] 1. Overgrown with reeds.
1876Grosart Introd. A. Wilson's Poems I. p. xli, He journeyed—gun in hand—in forest, brushwood, reeded swamp. 1891E. R. Pennell Stream Pleas. 65 The campers pitch their tents on the reeded islands. 2. Thatched with reed.
1778J. Bampfylde Sixteen Sonnets 16 Counting the frequent drop from reeded eaves. 1819H. Busk Vestriad v. 263 Grassy fences..That glittering hang the reeded eaves beneath. 1848Lytton Harold i. iv, Blunt, cone-headed turrets..rose often from the low, thatched and reeded roofs. 3. Ornamented with reed-moulding.
1829H. Foote Compan. to Theatre 36 The upper circle and tiers, including both the slips and lower gallery, are each supported in part by 14 slender shafts, reeded, of iron. 1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 80 When the [sword] blade..is required to have a reeded back or some similar sort of ornament. 1858Ecclesiologist XIX. 165 Circular shafts, with reeded caps. 1889Pater G. de Latour (1896) 79 Frames of reeded ebony or jewelled filigree. 1935Archit. Rev. LXXVIII. 33 The window is glazed with reeded glass. 1952[see agba]. 1978R. Rendell Sleeping Life ii. 14 No one came when they rang the bell on the neighbouring front door, a far more trendy and ambitious affair of wrought iron and reeded glass. 4. Furnished with musical reeds.
c1865Wylde's Circ. Sc. I. 284/1 The usual mode of forming reeded and tongued instruments. 5. Of wood: having a specified kind of reed.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 972 A quantity of well-seasoned and clean reeded deal is required for forming the joints. 6. fig.
1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) lxxxix. 495, I knew that Sherif Abd el Main should be still at Shobek, so rode boldly up the silent street in the reeded starlight, which played with the white icicles. |