redd
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Definition of redd
12 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (obsolete)To free from entanglement.
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verb
- (obsolete)To free from entanglement.
- (obsolete)To free from embarrassment.
- (Northern-England, Scotland)To fix boundaries.
- (Northern-England, Scotland)To comb hair.
- (Northern-England, Scotland)To separate combatants.
- (Northern-England, Scotland)To settle, usually a quarrel.
- (Northern-England, Scotland)To tidy up, clear away.
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(Pennsylvania, transitive)To clean, tidy up, to put in order.
“I've got to redd the place before your mother gets back.”
- (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of rede
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(form-of, obsolete, participle, past)simple past and past participle of read
“The Works of John Knox, 1841”
noun
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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
- A surname.
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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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