English Dictionary

screed

/skɹiːd/

verb

(transitive, chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, dated) To rend, to shred, to tear.

He loves to screed his opinions on social media.

意味（1）

(transitive, chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, dated) To rend, to shred, to tear.

It's no very like the land o' the leal here—d'ye think it is?—wi' this cauld soakit sand anaith ye, and you in thae screeded duds, and us twa in our sark sleeves. [Footnote: Land o' the leal, land of the faithful—heaven. Screeded duds, torn rags. Sark sleeves, shirt sleeves.]

It's no very like the land o' the leal here—d'ye think it is?—wi' this cauld soakit sand anaith ye, and you in thae screeded duds, and us twa in our sark sleeves. [Footnote: Land o' the leal, land of the faithful—heaven. Screeded duds, torn rags. Sark sleeves, shirt sleeves.] A use of the word as an adjective.

意味（2）

(transitive, Scotland, also figuratively, dated) To read or repeat from memory fluently or glibly; to reel off.

He'll ſcreed you aff Effectual Calling, / As faſt as ony in the dwalling.— …

意味（3）

(transitive, construction, masonry) To use a screed to produce a smooth, flat surface of concrete, plaster, or similar material; also (generally) to put down a layer of concrete, plaster, etc.

For this surfacing, the concrete is screeded and then covered with crushed red granite of 2- to 2½-in. size which is spread with shovels on the wet concrete, the quantity averaging about 55 lb. of stone per square yard.

意味（4）

(intransitive, Scotland) To become rent or torn.

[H]ad I been in ony o' your rotten French camlets now, or your drab-de-berries, it would hae screeded like an auld rag wi' sic a weight as mine.