bread vs bred

Definitions

verb

1. cover with bread crumbs

noun

1. food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
2. informal terms for money

Examples

Her name means happiness, but she is a widow with five children who makes ends meet by washing clothes for the neighbourhood and preparing injera, the unleavened bread prepared today as it was 1000 years ago.

So, he got out his bread knife and trimmed the quarter-loaf down to a couple of slices of dry toast.

Another party I fell in with said you could generally always get bread; and the thing to do was to break a plateglass window and get into gaol; seemed rather a brilliant scheme.

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