<p><strong>noun</strong></p><ul><li>the straight stalk of any of various tall grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, growing in marshy places.</li><li>any of the plants themselves.</li><li>such stalks or plants collectively.</li><li>anything made from such a stalk or from something similar, as an arrow.</li><li>Music. a pastoral or rustic musical pipe made from a reed or from the hollow stalk of some other plant.</li><li>a small, flexible piece of cane or metal that, attached to the mouth of any of various wind instruments, is set into vibration by a stream of air and, in turn, sets into vibration the air column enclosed in the tube of the instrument.</li><li>reed instrument.</li><li>Textiles. the series of parallel strips of wires in a loom that force the weft up to the web and separate the threads of the warp.</li><li>an ancient unit of length, equal to 6 cubits.</li></ul><p><strong>verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to decorate with reed.</li><li>to thatch with or as if with reed.</li><li>to make vertical grooves on (the edge of a coin, medal, etc.).</li></ul>