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Substantiivi

1. (countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
2. (UK, Scotland, dialect) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
3. (countable) The hollow stem of these plants.
4. (countable, music) Part of an aerophone musical instrument, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal, which vibrates to produce sound when air passes through it.
5. (countable, music) Short for reed instrument.
6. (countable, weaving) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.
7. (countable, historical) A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.
8. (uncountable, architecture) Reeding.
9. (mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
10. Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
11. (poetic, obsolete) A missile weapon.
12. (archaic, metrology) A measuring rod.
13. A Babylonian unit of measure the length of a reed, equal to half a nindan, or six cubits.

Verbi

1. (transitive) To thatch.
2. To mill or mint with reeding.