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Definition of Reedy
1. Adjective. Having a tone of a reed instrument.
2. Adjective. Resembling a reed in being upright and slender.
Definition of Reedy
1. a. Abounding with reeds; covered with reeds.
Definition of Reedy
1. Adjective. Full of, or edged with, reeds. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a sound or voice) high and thin in tone. ¹
3. Adjective. (context: of a person) tall and thin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reedy
1. abounding in reeds [adj REEDIER, REEDIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reedy
Literary usage of Reedy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Coast Pilot: Containing the Courses and Distances Between the by Edmund March Blunt (1822)
"When yon pass reedy island, be careful of a long shoal that lies to the NNW ...
MOUNTS, by E. )>make full sea at <( reedy island. Cape Henlopen. ..."
2. Letters of James Gibbons Huneker by James Huneker (1922)
"reedy Aug. srd, 1905 No, I never ask managers favors; in Mr. F's [Charles Frohman]
case I couldn't if I wished to—I never saw him in my life. ..."
3. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1902)
"... for the time devoted to the preparation of this paper. RECREATION FOR WOMEN.
BY MRS. LUCY M. reedy, Columbus, O. t [Read at tbe Farmers' Institute, ..."
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