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Red. |
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Same as Rede. |
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The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. |
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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). |
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A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant;
a rustic or pastoral pipe. |
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An arrow, as made of a reed. |
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Straw prepared for thatching a roof. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge
in blasting. |
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Same as Reeding. |
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