reed

reed is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as adjective, verb & noun, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Red. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 5 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Red.
2. verb & noun. Same as Rede.
3. noun. The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
4. noun. A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).
5. noun. A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
6. noun. An arrow, as made of a reed.
7. noun. Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
8. noun. A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.
9. noun. One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine; also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ.
10. noun. A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.
11. noun. A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
12. noun. Same as Reeding.
13. noun. a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
14. noun. a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it

    "the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece"

15. noun. United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
16. noun. United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
17. noun. tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in reed:

deer, dere, dree, rede

Common word forms

reeds, reeded, reeden, reeder, reeding, reedless

Words from these letters

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