serried
serried is the simple past and past participle of serry.
Meaning of serry
Verb
serry (third-person singular simple present serries, present participle serrying, simple past and past participle serried)
- To crowd, press together, or close (rank)
- High shoulders, low shoulders, broad shoulders, narrow ones,
Round, square, and angular, serry and shove1904, William Ernest Henley, “Clinical”, in Poems
- High shoulders, low shoulders, broad shoulders, narrow ones,
Adjective
serried (comparative more serried, superlative most serried)
- Crowded together in rows.
- Above the bush the trees stood in serried ranks.1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II
- Steady and slow, as soldiers go in some serried dress parade,
With flags a-dance in their cool advance came the gallant gray brigade,1898, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Garden of Years and Other Poems (poem), Gettysburg
Forms of serried
| comparative | more serried |
|---|---|
| superlative | most serried |
Words formed from serried
Questions about serried
- What does serried mean?
- Serried means crowded together in rows.
- What is serried the simple past and past participle of?
- Serried is the simple past and past participle of serry.
- What part of speech is serried?
- Serried is an adjective.
Words near serried in the dictionary
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