Screed

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.

2. A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.

3. A fragment; a portion; a shred. [Scot.]

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds.

2. An harangue; a long tirade on any subject. The old carl gae them a screed of doctrine; ye might have heard him a mile down the wind. Sir W. Scott.