recede

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That see is not more reed than another see; but in some place thereof is the gravelle reede: and therfore men clepen it the Rede See.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Hakluyt, Richard

The ninth day newes was brought that the Crims determined to assault the towne or castle, and were making of fagots of reede, to bring with them for that purpose.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 by Hakluyt, Richard

The small reede as long as five foot, in breadth, and of the thicknesse of a thumb.

From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Radisson, Pierre Esprit

The clerk of Oxford, who prefers to wealth and luxury his "twenty bookes clad in blak or reede," contributes the story of the patient Griselda.

From A History of English Prose Fiction by Tuckerman, Bayard

But law, Ishmael! ever sense Hannah has been teechin them young uns o ourn to reede there primmers, shes jest got to be the orfullest Bloo Stokkin as evver was.

From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte