Redd

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.

Alternative forms

• red

Full definition of redd

Verb

1. (colloquial) To put in order; to make tidy; generally with up.''to redd up a house.
2. (colloquial) To free from entanglement.
3. (colloquial) To free from embarrassment.
4. (Scotland and Northern England) To fix boundaries.
5. (Scotland and Northern England) To comb hair.
6. (Scotland and Northern England) To separate combatants.
7. (Scotland and Northern England) To settle, usually a quarrel.
8. (obsolete) To save, rescue, deliverÞe children þerwiþ fram deþe he redde. — Floris and BlauncheflurWhi ne mighttestow wiþ lesse greue han yredd us fram helle? — Ancrene Riwle

Derived terms

• outredd, outred

From Middle English, from Old Norse rydhja, Middle Low German, compare Dutch redden.

Alternative forms

• red

Verb

1. (transitive, Pennsylvania) To clean, tidy up, to put in order.I've got to redd up the place before your mother gets back.

Origin obscure, possibly from the act of the fish scooping, clearing out a spawning place, see redd above.

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.

From the archaic verb rede or read

Verb

1. redd

   (past of rede)
2. (obsolete)

   redd

   (past of read)
   Verrelie that which I have heard and redd in the woorde of God — The Works of John Knox, 1841