Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Architecture A convex decorative molding having parallel strips resembling thin reeds.
- noun Parallel grooves cut into the edge of a coin at right angles to the faces.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Thatching.
- noun In architecture, a series of small convex or beaded moldings designed for ornament; also, the convex fluting or cabling characterizing some types of column.
- noun The milling on the edge of a coin.
- noun In silk-weaving. See the quotation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A small convex molding; a reed (see
Illust. (i) ofmolding ); one of several set close together to decorate a surface; also, decoration by means of reedings; -- the reverse offluting . - noun The nurling on the edge of a coin; -- commonly called
milling .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Decorative
moulding ofparallel strips that resemblereeds . - noun Milling on the edge of a
coin . - verb Present participle of
reed .
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Examples
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Piece by piece, as he had been able to afford them, he had been ordering the presses, the stamping machine, and a little "reeding" or milling machine for the edges of the coins.
Constance Dunlap 1908
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"reeding," or roughened edge, is stamped sharply, and we can tell just what the coin is by feeling of it with the finger, even in the dark.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. Scribner's Illustrated Various 1868
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As for the 3rd tipe well, you show me the won person who's life has bin impruved by reeding and I will show you a commy smarteepants who ot to be slaped for thinking he is beter than me.
James Napoli: We Shood Make Eevin Moar Cuts to Publick Educayshun James Napoli 2011
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But innsted these stoodents lern abowt stoopid stuff like math and reeding and sience and the sience part is the wurst because that goes agenst God.
James Napoli: We Shood Make Eevin Moar Cuts to Publick Educayshun James Napoli 2011
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But innsted these stoodents lern abowt stoopid stuff like math and reeding and sience and the sience part is the wurst because that goes agenst God.
James Napoli: We Shood Make Eevin Moar Cuts to Publick Educayshun James Napoli 2011
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As for the 3rd tipe well, you show me the won person who's life has bin impruved by reeding and I will show you a commy smarteepants who ot to be slaped for thinking he is beter than me.
James Napoli: We Shood Make Eevin Moar Cuts to Publick Educayshun James Napoli 2011
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But innsted these stoodents lern abowt stoopid stuff like math and reeding and sience and the sience part is the wurst because that goes agenst God.
James Napoli: We Shood Make Eevin Moar Cuts to Publick Educayshun James Napoli 2011
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But innsted these stoodents lern abowt stoopid stuff like math and reeding and sience and the sience part is the wurst because that goes agenst God.
James Napoli: We Shood Make Eevin Moar Cuts to Publick Educayshun James Napoli 2011
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As for the 3rd tipe well, you show me the won person who's life has bin impruved by reeding and I will show you a commy smarteepants who ot to be slaped for thinking he is beter than me.
James Napoli: We Shood Make Eevin Moar Cuts to Publick Educayshun James Napoli 2011
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As for the 3rd tipe well, you show me the won person who's life has bin impruved by reeding and I will show you a commy smarteepants who ot to be slaped for thinking he is beter than me.
James Napoli: We Shood Make Eevin Moar Cuts to Publick Educayshun James Napoli 2011
reesetee commented on the word reeding
The grooved notch pattern on the edge of some coins.
April 23, 2008