reed

About 7.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
2. noun The hollow stem of these plants.
3. noun Part of an aerophone musical instrument, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal, which vibrates to produce sound when air passes through it.
4. noun Short for reed instrument.
5. noun A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.
6. noun A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.
7. noun Reeding.
8. noun A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.

Similar words

beating-reed instrument walter reed grass cattail red plate fyn canary sheet layer

Often followed by

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Word family

John Reed Reed Stanley Forman Reed Thomas Brackett Reed Walter Reed read reeded reeding reedlike reeds