Landscaping Word of the Day: Screed

If you hear people talking about building patios and walkways, you may encounter the word, screed. Perhaps you wonder, What the heck is a screed? And if you take merely a cursory glance at the dictionary definition of the word, you may come away even more perplexed. For Random House's first entry for the word defines it as a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe. But it's the third entry in the dictionary that applies to landscaping....