Shred
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle.
(2): ( n.) A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
(3): ( n.) To lop; to prune; to trim.
(4): ( imp. & p. p.) of Shred
(5): ( n.) To cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and long pieces, as of cloth or leather.
King James Dictionary [2]
Shred, pret. and pp. shred. To cut into small pieces, particularly marrow and long pieces, as of cloth or lether. It differs from mince, which signifies to chop into pieces fine and short.
Shred, n.
1. A long narrow piece cut off as shreds of cloth. 2. A fragment a piece as shreds of wit.