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Definition of: screed
(skrēd) noun
1. A prolonged tirade; harangue.
2. A wooden strip or a strip of mortar laid on a wall at intervals, to gage the thickness of the plastering.
3. A long torn strip or shred; hence, any detached strip or fragment: the original meaning, now chiefly Scottish.
4. Scot. A tearing; rent; tear; also, a drinking spree.
—v.t.
1. To rend or tear into shreds.
2. Scot. To repeat glibly. [Var. of SHRED]
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