Word Finder - reeds

definition

Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.

definition

The hollow stem of these plants.

definition

Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.

definition

A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.

definition

A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.

definition

A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.

definition

Reeding.

definition

A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.

definition

Straw prepared for thatching a roof.

definition

A missile weapon.

definition

A measuring rod.

definition

To thatch.

definition

To mill or mint with reeding.

definition

The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.

Its marshy banks are overgrown with reeds and inhabited by numerous waterfowl.

The roof was highpitched and covered with straw, hay, reeds or tiles.

There are patches of dense reeds, reaching to ft.

The nest is formed among reeds, placed on the ground and lined with grass.

The sloping roof is covered with reeds, straw or stones.

The roofs were thatched with bark, straw, reeds or rushes.

Many kinds of reeds are found in Egypt, though they were formerly much more common.

He was, however, disappointed in this, as after descending the course of the Macquarie below Mount Harris, he found that the river ended in an immense swamp overgrown with reeds.

There is not much difficulty in detecting the difference tone by a resonator if it is held, say, close to the reeds of a harmonium, and Helmholtz succeeded in detecting the summation tone by the aid of a resonator.

The Arab traders in the Levant certainly used a floating compass, as did the Italians before the introduction of the pivoted needle; the magnetized piece of iron being floated upon a small raft of cork or reeds in a bowl of water.

A type of building which is becoming increasingly popular for this purpose, and which is in many respects superior to the older, and often more expensive structures, is built of wood, with or without brick foundations, and is thickly thatched with reeds or other non-conducting material externally - on walls and roof - while the interior is matchboarded.

The lion lives chiefly in sandy plains and rocky places interspersed with dense thorn-thickets, or frequents the low bushes and tall rank grass and reeds that grow along the sides of streams and near the springs where it lies in wait for the larger herbivorous animals on which it feeds.

Jungle will not grow on these depressions, and they are covered either with water, reeds, high grasses or rice cultivation.

From the light and slender stalks shafts for arrows are obtained; and in the south-west of Asia there is a certain species of equally slender growth, from which writing pens or reeds are made.

Along this part of its course the river is apt to be choked with reeds and, except where bordered by lines of palm trees, the channel loses itself in lakes and swamps.

In spite of Fitzstephen's glowing description we must remember that the houses of London were wholly built of wood and thatched with straw or reeds.

Thenceforth everyone who built a house was strictly charged not to cover it with reeds, rushes, stubble or straw, but only with tiles, shingle boards or lead.

Dr Petrie surmounts the difficulty by saying that the process depicted is not glass-blowing, but some metallurgical process in which reeds were used tipped with lumps of clay.

Water-deer frequent the neighbourhood of the large Chinese rivers where they crouch amid the reeds and grass in such a manner as to be invisible, even when not completely concealed by the covert.

For a commentary on this see the opening of the Babylonian account referred to above, which refers to the period of chaos as one in which there were neither reeds nor trees, and where " the lands altogether were sea."

Poor dugouts and rafts, made by tying reeds together, constituted the water-craft of California and Mexico until Central America is reached.

The syrinx consisted of a varying number of reeds, having their open ends or embouchures in a horizontal line and their stopped ends, formed by the knots in the reed, gradually decreasing in length from left to right.

Such bars are used in musical boxes and as free reeds in organ pipes.

We may illustrate the first method by taking a case discussed by Helmholtz (Sensations of Tone, app. xvi.) where the two sources are reeds or pipes blown from the same wind-chest.

Hippocrates, writing in the 5th century B.C., says of the people of the Phasis that their country is hot and marshy and subject to frequent inundations, and that they live in houses of timber and reeds constructed in the midst of the waters, and use boats of a single tree trunk.

The bishops were, for the most part, elegant triflers, as pliant as reeds, with no fixed principles and saturated with a false humanism.

Coxcoxtli used the help of the Aztecs against the Xochimilco people; but his own nation, horrified at their bloodthirsty sacrifice of prisoners, drove them out to the islands and swamps of the great salt lagoon, where they are said to have taken to making their chinampas or floating gardens of mud heaped on rafts of reeds and brush, which in later times were so remarkable a feature of Mexico.

In 1889 he published The Wind among the Reeds, containing some of his best lyrics, and in 1900 another poetical drama, The Shadowy Waters.

The reeds are cover for waterfowl of various kinds, which the traveller sees in great numbers, and wild boars are found in the marshes to the south.

When of one cable, called the taravita, the passenger and his luggage are drawn across in a rude kind of basket suspended from it; but when two or more cables are used, transverse sticks of bamboo and reeds are laid upon them, forming a rude prototype of the regular suspension bridge.

He then filled up the hole, thinking his secret safe; but the reeds which grew up over the spot proclaimed it to all the world.

The first three rivers make their way with difficulty through the sands and reeds, which at a quite recent time were covered by the lake.

In Norfolk the reeds of marshland are employed, and they constitute a durable thatch lasting from thirty to forty years or more.

In a desert place near Nogent-sur-Seine, he built himself a cabin of stubble and reeds, and turned hermit.

Bede, speaking of a church built by Finan at Lindisfarne, says, " nevertheless, after the manner of the Scots, he made it not of stone but of hewn oak and covered it with reeds."

Grazing and fodder are not wanting, and besides the reeds peculiar to Seistan there are two grasses which merit notice - that called bannu, with which the bed of the Hamun abounds on the south and the taller and less salt kirta on the higher ground.

The dense reed-beds (Naizar) skirting the Hamun, often several miles in width and composed of reeds 10 ft.

It is hoped that once completed these new reeds along with the existing ones will prove suitable for breeding bitterns.

The property also benefits from gas central he Read More... Advertised by Reeds Rains, Stafford.

Glockenspiel, strings, reeds, world percussion and programming combine to create classy, intelligent, frail and melancholy pieces.

Little crake A small Crake disappeared into reeds at the Aguas estuary late afternoon 9/11, this bird was almost certainly a Little Crake.

On the edges of Lagoon III there is a growing area of reeds, greatly enlarged by a major project in 2000.

A muddy foreshore is therefore exposed, with reeds growing in shallows.

Nearby, between reeds and bog bean, was growing the marsh horsetail Equisetum palustre that can grow up to 60 cm tall.

We rented kayaks one night, and as dusk fell we paddled out from the reeds at the water's edge.

Beneath the head were two reeds with kohl and a kohl stick.

A very large Nile monitor lizard was seen swimming close to reeds.

As well as improving standards of sewage treatment, the reeds should offer shelter for bird species including moorhens, coots, and warblers.

The chanter reeds are usually like the ones in shawms, or modern oboes.

An adult Purple Heron dropping in to the reeds and a female Marsh Harrier causing Pandemonium among the duck and waders added further excitement.