reed

(noun, verb)

noun

1. tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

Definition categories: plant

2. 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

Definition categories: man–made, vibrator

3. a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed

Definition categories: man–made, wood, woodwind

verb

1. To mill or mint with reeding.

2. simple past tense and past participle of ree