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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.

redd (third-person singular simple present redds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redd or redded)

  1. (obsolete) To free from entanglement.
  2. (obsolete) To free from embarrassment.
  3. (Scotland and Northern England) To fix boundaries.
  4. (Scotland and Northern England) To comb hair.
  5. (Scotland and Northern England) To separate combatants.
  6. (Scotland and Northern England) To settle, usually a quarrel.
  7. (Scotland and Northern England) To tidy up, clear away.

From Middle English, from Old Norse ryðja, Middle Low German, compare Dutch redden. In modern use probably actually a back-formation from ready.

redd (third-person singular simple present redds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redded)

  1. (transitive, Pennsylvania) To clean, tidy up, to put in order.

    I've got to redd 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.

redd (plural redds)

  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.

redd

  1. simple past and past participle of rede
  2. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of read
    • The Works of John Knox, 1841

      Verrelie that which I have heard and redd in the woorde of God

From Old Norse hræddr, from hræða (“frighten”).

redd (neuter singular redd, definite singular and plural redde, comparative reddere, indefinite superlative reddest, definite superlative reddeste)

  1. frightened, afraid

redd

  1. imperative of redde

From Old Norse hræddr, from hræða (“frighten”).

redd (indefinite singular redd, definite singular and plural redde, comparative reddare, indefinite superlative reddast, definite superlative reddaste)

  1. frightened; afraid
  2. careful with; worried about

redd

  1. imperative of redda

From Middle English redden, from Old English hreddan, from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną.

redd (third-person singular simple present redds, present participle reddin, simple past and past participle redd)

  1. to free, relieve
  2. to clear, vacate
  3. to disentangle, unravel
  4. to comb
  5. to arrange, settle
  6. to fix, determine
  7. to tidy see modern Norwegian rydde, to tidy

From Old Swedish redh, from Old Norse reiðr, from Middle Low German rêde, reide, from Old Saxon *rēda, from Proto-Germanic *raidō (“ride, journey”). Doublet of red (“ride; raid”).

redd c

  1. (nautical) road (towards a harbour), a roadstead
    ligga på redden
    to ride towards the anchor in the road

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

redd

  1. past participle of reda