LekhoriLekhoriA long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
To leaue him that bare a Monarkes minde, / For a king of clovvts, of very ſhreads.
A piece of gold or silver lace or thread.
But, vvhen a tvvelvemonth paſs'd avvay, / Jack found his goddeſs made of clay; / Found half the charms that deck'd her face, / Aroſe from povvder, ſhreds, or lace; […]
To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
Take a little grated Bread, ſome Beef-ſuet, yolks of hard Eggs, three Anchovies, a bit of an Onion, Salt and Pepper, Tyme and VVinter-ſavory, tvvelve Oyſters, ſome Nutmeg grated; mix all theſe together, and ſhred them very fine, and vvork them up vvith ravv Eggs like a paſte, and ſtuff your Mutton under the Skin in the thickeſt place, or vvhere you pleaſe, and roaſt it; […]
Synonym of shredded (“cut or torn into narrow strips or small pieces”).
The ſtinging alſo of ſhred Horſ-hair, which in meriment is often ſtrew'd between the ſheets of a Bed, ſeems to proceed from the ſame cauſe.
From Middle English shrede, shred (“fragment, piece, scrap; piece cut off from something; strip of material; ornamental strip hanging from the edge of a garment; thread; band or thread woven in a garm...
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To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
But then there was the awkward incident of the tearing of the writs. Nigel, to whom a lie was an impossibility, had to admit that with his own hands he had shredded those august documents.
To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.