Definitions
A leveled strip or layer used as a guide for plaster, concrete, or flooring.
Word origin
From Middle English screde, Early Middle English screda, a variant of shreden, shrede (“to chop, cut up, hack; to cut to shape; to maim, wound; to prune, trim”) [and other forms] (whence shred (verb)), from Old English scrēadian (“to cut up, shred; to cut off, prune”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudaną (“to cut up, shred”), see further at etymology 1; later uses are derived from the noun screed.
Used in a sentence
“Eh, Mr Henry! but the carle gae him a screed o' doctrine! Ye might hae heard him a mile down the wind—He routed like a cow in a fremd loaning.”
“I see it's three o'clock in the morning and I've written whole screeds when I only intended to write a short note!”
“It uses a lot of footage of Japanese actors, and screeds of character text, making it unlikely to see a European release.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Plaster guide”6 letters
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