screed

noun

Pronunciation: /skɹiːd/ / /skɹid/

Etymology: Etymology tree English scree English -ed English screed From scree (“loose, stony debris”) + -ed.

Strewn with scree.
“We clambered up a screed slope.”
“A safety fence edged the curve of the road and beyond this the screed slope increased in grade to a precipitous cliff.”

Etymology: Probably imitative; compare screech, skreigh.

A (discordant) sound or tune played on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
“"Wi' hat in hand," sweet lass, quo I, / "Wer't in my power to sooth thy sigh, / My hame-bor'd whistle I wad try, / An' gie't a screed, / Atween whar Tiviot murmurs by, / An' bonny Tweed."”
The sound of something scratching or tearing.
“Right o'er the ſteep he leans, / When his well-pleniſh'd king-hood voiding needs; / And, ſploiting, ſtrikes the ſtane his grany hit, / Wi' piſtol ſcreed, ſhot frae his gorlin doup.— [...]”

Etymology: Probably imitative; compare screech, skreigh.

To play bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
“[T]wa Cheels we White Sarks, and a wee Wean with a white Sark got aboon whar the Whiſtle-Pipes war, the yen lilted, and the other Skirled and Screeded till them, and ſtill I ſweeted, I thought they never wad hea done.”
To make a discordant or harsh scratching or tearing sound.
To play (a sound or tune) on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
“In life's gay morn, or youthfu' prime, / Ere fancy droops her wing, / Screed up your reed, for that's the time / For bards to rant and sing; [...]”