Redd vs Rede - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between redd and rede

is that redd is a spawning nest made by a fish while rede is speech.

As a verb redd

is (colloquial) to put in order; to make tidy; generally with up or redd can be (pennsylvania) to clean, tidy up, to put in order or redd can be (rede).

redd

English

Etymology 1

Fusion of (etyl) . More at rid, ready.

Alternative forms

* red

Verb

(colloquial) To put in order; to make tidy; generally with up.

''to redd up a house.

(colloquial) To free from entanglement.

(colloquial) To free from embarrassment.

(Scotland, and, Northern England) To fix boundaries.

(Scotland, and, Northern England) To comb hair.

(Scotland, and, Northern England) To separate combatants.

(Scotland, and, Northern England) To settle, usually a quarrel.

(obsolete) To save, rescue, deliver

Þe children þerwiþ fram deþe he redde .'' — ''Floris and Blauncheflur

Whi ne mighttestow wiþ lesse greue han yredd us fram helle?'' — ''Ancrene Riwle

Derived terms

* (l), (l)

References

Etymology 2

From (etyl), from (etyl) rydhja, (etyl), compare Dutch redden.

Alternative forms

* red

Verb

(en verb)

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

I've got to redd up the place before your mother gets back.

References

Etymology 3

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

Noun

(en noun)

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.

Etymology 4

From the archaic verb rede or read

Verb

(head)

(rede)

(obsolete) (read)

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

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rede

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(-)

(archaic) Help, advice, counsel.

* 1603 , William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", Act 1, Scene 3:

Ophelia:
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.

* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , vol. 1:

When the Bull heard these words he knew the Ass to be his friend and thanked him, saying, "Right is thy rede "

* 1954 , JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers :

‘Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.’

(archaic) Decision, a plan.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) reden, . More at (l).

Verb

To govern, protect.

To discuss, deliberate.

To advise.

:(Chaucer)

*:The meane whyle his squyer founde wryten vpon the crosse that Bagdemagus shold neuer retorne vnto the Courte ageyne / tyll he had wonne a kny?tes body of the round table body for body / lo syr said his squyer / here I fynde wrytyng of yow / therfor I rede yow retorne ageyne to the Courte / that shalle I neuer said Bagdemagus

To interpret (a riddle or dream); explain.

:(Chaucer)

*1836 , (Thomas Carlyle), (Sartor Resartus)

*:The secret of Man's Being is still like the Sphinx's secret: a riddle that he cannot rede .

Derived terms

* (l)

Anagrams

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