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Screed

noun

A long monotonous harangue.

A long piece of writing.

An accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete.

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"Screed" Quotes from Famous Books

... a humorous rigmarole, designed for the benefit of tourists. It was pure 'nature-faking,' since it ascribed human characteristics to some of the fish in the pool, the various specimens being called the "bride" and "groom" and so forth. The screed was rather wearisome to Colin, but when he tried to interrupt, the old keeper seemed so hurt and so confused that the boy let him ...

— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... knowledge goes, Bill Brown's pessimistic views of farm life were not accepted by any save Alfred's immediate family. Alfred carried a copy of his address, "A Glimpse of Nature, or Back to the Farm" in his pocket. Mrs. Field preserved Bill Brown's screed. As one prediction of Bill's after another came to pass, she would say to Alfred: "There, see there? Even Mr. Brown knew what would come of this ...

— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field

... first consoling thing I have had since my disaster, ten days ago. It really cheered me up for half an hour. Send me a screed, Ned, as often as you can, if you love me. Anything will do. Write me more about that little girl in the hammock. That was very pretty, all that about the Dresden china shepherdess and the pond-lily; the imagery a little ...

— Marjorie Daw • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... pamphlet, apparently published about the summer of 1520, shortly after Luther's ex-communication, was the so-called "Wolf Song" (Wolf-gesang), which paints the enemies of Luther as wolves. It begins with a screed on the creation and fall of Adam, and a dissertation on the dogma of the Redemption; and then proceeds: "As one might say, dear brother, instruct me, for there is now in our times so great commotion in faith come upon us. There is one in ...

— German Culture Past and Present • Ernest Belfort Bax

Words linked to "Screed" : ranting, writing, strip, harangue, slip, piece of writing, written material, rant