Definition of "reeding" []

• Architecture A convex decorative molding having parallel strips resembling thin reeds. (noun)
• Parallel grooves cut into the edge of a coin at right angles to the faces. (noun)

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• "Piece by piece, as he had been able to afford them, he had been ordering the presses, the stamping machine, and a little "reeding" or milling machine for the edges of the coins."
• ""reeding," or roughened edge, is stamped sharply, and we can tell just what the coin is by feeling of it with the finger, even in the dark."
• "As for the 3rd tipe well, you show me the won person who's life has bin impruved by reeding and I will show you a commy smarteepants who ot to be slaped for thinking he is beter than me."