bead
/ˈbiːd/ verb C2- To form into a bead. · The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.
- To apply beads to. · She spent the morning beading the gown.
- To form into a bead. · He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.
- To cause beads to form on (something).
He/she/it beads · Past beaded · Past participle beaded · -ing form beading
Verb forms
- Base form
- bead
- He/she/it
- beads
- Past
- beaded
- Past participle
- beaded
- -ing form
- beading
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And Tillie Boulter let me wear her bead ring all the afternoon.
If I am killed you are to have my pearl bead ring.”
If Anne had tumbled off the roof on the side up which she had ascended Diana would probably have fallen heir to the pearl bead ring then and there.
First a card with “For the Anne-girl and Merry Christmas,” written on it; and then, a pair of the daintiest little kid slippers, with beaded toes and satin bows and glistening buckles.
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