Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A spawning nest made by a fish, especially a salmon or trout.
- transitive verb To clear.
from The Century Dictionary.
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red . - noun See
red .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A spawning nest made by a
fish . - verb transitive, Pennsylvania To
clean ,tidy up, to put inorder . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rede . - verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
read . - verb colloquial To put in
order ; to maketidy ; generally with up. - verb colloquial To free from
entanglement . - verb colloquial To free from
embarrassment . - verb Scotland and Northern England To fix boundaries.
- verb Scotland and Northern England To
comb hair . - verb Scotland and Northern England To
separate combatants . - verb Scotland and Northern England To
settle , usually aquarrel . - verb obsolete To save, rescue,
deliver
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Adopted from Native American tradition, the drum beats represent the slap of the female coho's tail as she scrapes out a shallow gravel nest called a redd.
The Seattle Times 2011
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A redd is a place where fish "spawn," or lay eggs.
Addison County Independent - Covering the 23 towns of Addison County, Vermont 2009
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When I moved to North Carolina from Pennsylvania, aside from my northern accent, the regionalism of mine that most stood out was 'redd', as in: "I need to go home and redd up the house."
Royale With Cheese 2007
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But they got out of their chair and soon began to "redd" away the stones though they found very great difficulty in getting the lamps to burn.
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh
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For example, it isn't in the dictionary and spell-checker for my own word processor, so every time I type "redd" on my computer it shows up underlined in red (an appropriate color, I suppose) as a misspelled word.
Addison County Independent - Covering the 23 towns of Addison County, Vermont 2009
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Especially when pewlosi, redd and obama get hold of her.
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May 28, 2010 at 6:56 pm att nawt-secund, ai redd wutt yoo sed rong….den ai reelized dat dere wuzz a ‘wander’ inn dere….
Cat Massage - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Yu kud sea tehm frum farzfarz awae bikaws tehy hadded beriberi tawl, poynteded redd roofses.
BACKSEAT DRIVER - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Until ai redd dat uvver peeps wos habbin trubblols wif de sight, ai thort it wos juss me.
oneday - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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I redd it wenn teh papur-bakk caem owt an dat wuz a lawng tiem ago!
KRAKEN - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Born in a ‘redd’, a shallow, gravel-covered depression dug by the female in the days before spawning, newly hatched salmon begin life as ‘alevins’, tiny, buoyant creatures with their yolk sacs still attached.
Richard Hamblyn · Simply Putting on Weight: Salmon · LRB 25 February 2010 Richard Hamblyn 2019
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