screeding

Verb (1)

screed (third-person singular simple present screeds, present participle screeding, simple past and past participle screeded)

1. (Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, dated, transitive) To rend, to shred, to tear.
   • It's no very like the land o' the leal here—d'ye think it is?—wi' this cauld soakit sand anaith ye, and you in thae screeded duds, and us twa in our sark sleeves. [Footnote: Land o' the leal, land of the faithful—heaven. Screeded duds, torn rags. Sark sleeves, shirt sleeves.]1869 October, “Beyond Breakers”, in Lippincott’s Magazine of Literature, Science and Education, volume IV, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott and Co., →OCLC, chapter XXXIV (For Life)...

   Synonyms:

   cut, rip

2. (Scotland, also, dated, figuratively, transitive) To read or repeat from memory fluently or glibly; to reel off.
   • He'll ſcreed you aff Effectual Calling, / As faſt as ony in the dwalling.— [...]1801, Robert Burns, “The Inventory. In Answer to a Mandate by the Surveyor of the Taxes.”, in Poems Ascribed to Robert Burns, the Ayrshire Bard, […], Glasgow: […] Chapman & Lang, for Thomas Stewart...
3. (transitive) To use a screed to produce a smooth, flat surface of concrete, plaster, or similar material; also (generally) to put down a layer of concrete, plaster, etc.
   • For this surfacing, the concrete is screeded and then covered with crushed red granite of 2- to 2½-in. size which is spread with shovels on the wet concrete, the quantity averaging about 55 lb. of stone per square yard.1924 February 21, “Rebuilding a Section of Street Railway at Milwaukee”, in Frank C. Wright, editor, Engineering News-Record, volume 92, number 8, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Company, →ISSN, →OCLC...
4. (Scotland, intransitive) To become rent or torn.
   • [H]ad I been in ony o' your rotten French camlets now, or your drab-de-berries, it would hae screeded like an auld rag wi' sic a weight as mine.1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Rob Roy. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst...

Verb (2)

screed (third-person singular simple present screeds, present participle screeding, simple past and past participle screeded)

1. (Northern Ireland, Scotland, humorous, intransitive, rare) To play bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
   • [T]wa Cheels we White Sarks, and a wee Wean with a white Sark got aboon whar the Whiſtle-Pipes war, the yen lilted, and the other Skirled and Screeded till them, and ſtill I ſweeted, I thought they never wad hea done.1731 May 16, “The North-Country-Man’s Description of Christ-Church; in a Letter to a Friend. Portferry, May 6th. 1731. [Julian calendar]”, in James Row, The Wounds o’ the Kirk o’ Scotland: In a...
2. (Northern Ireland, Scotland, intransitive, rare) To make a discordant or harsh scratching or tearing sound.

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