redd

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
6
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ɹɛd/

Definition of redd

12 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete)To free from entanglement.
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verb

  1. (obsolete)To free from entanglement.
  2. (obsolete)To free from embarrassment.
  3. (Northern-England, Scotland)To fix boundaries.
  4. (Northern-England, Scotland)To comb hair.
  5. (Northern-England, Scotland)To separate combatants.
  6. (Northern-England, Scotland)To settle, usually a quarrel.
  7. (Northern-England, Scotland)To tidy up, clear away.
  8. (Pennsylvania, transitive)To clean, tidy up, to put in order.
    “I've got to redd the place before your mother gets back.”
  9. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of rede
  10. (form-of, obsolete, participle, past)simple past and past participle of read
    “The Works of John Knox, 1841”

noun

  1. A spawning nest made by a fish.
    “2007, Michael Klesius, Fishes' Riches, National Geographic (March 2007), 32, A female chinook salmon digs her redd, or nest, prior to spawning in Oregon's John Day River.”

name

  1. A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Fusion of Middle English redden (“to save, rescue, deliver, rid, free, clear”), from Old English hreddan (“to save, deliver, recover, rescue”), from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną and Middle English reden (“to clean up, clear”), from Old English ġerǣdan (“to put in order, arrange, prepare”), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaną (“to arrange”). More at rid, ready.

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