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/skreed/, n.1. a long discourse or essay, esp. a diatribe.2. an informal letter, account, or other piece of writing.3. Building Trades.a. a strip of plaster or wood applied to a surface to be plastered to serve as a guide for making a true surface.b. a wooden strip serving as a guide for making a true level surface on a concrete pavement or the like.c. a board or metal strip dragged across a freshly poured concrete slab to give it its proper level.4. Brit. Dial. a fragment or shred, as of cloth.5. Scot.a. a tear or rip, esp. in cloth.b. a drinking bout.v.t., v.i.6. Scot. to tear, rip, or shred, as cloth.[1275-1325; ME screde torn fragment, irreg. (with sc- for sh-) repr. OE screade SHRED]
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Universalium. 2010.