Redd vs Reed - What's the difference?
redd | reed |
(colloquial) To put in order; to make tidy; generally with up.
(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
(Pennsylvania) To clean, tidy up, to put in order.
A spawning nest made by a fish.
* 2007, Michael Klesius, Fishes' Riches , National Geographic (March 2007), 32,
(rede)
(obsolete) (read)
(botany, countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
(countable, botany) The hollow stem of these plants.
(countable, music) Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising of a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.
(countable, music) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.
(countable, weaving) A comb-like tool for beating the weft when weaving.
(uncountable, architecture) reeding
(mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
straw prepared for thatching a roof
(ree)
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).As a noun redd
is a spawning nest made by a fish.As a proper noun reed is
, a spelling variant of reid.redd
English
Etymology 1
Fusion of (etyl) . More at rid, ready.Alternative forms
* redVerb
- ''to redd up a house.
- 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
* redVerb
(en verb)- 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 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 readVerb
(head)- Verrelie that which I have heard and redd in the woorde of God'' — ''The Works of John Knox , 1841
reed
English
(wikipedia reed)Etymology 1
(etyl) (l)'', (etyl) ''(l)''. Akin to German ''Ried''. No cognates in North Germanic languages, but a Gothic was derivedThe supposition] about Gothic and the quote from Noctes Atticae in : "''dixit ... amicus meus in libro se Gavi de origine vocabulorum VII legisse "retas" vocari arbores, quae aut ripis fluminum eminerent aut in alveis eorum exstarent''". It is theorised that the word may have a relation to ''ritae'' in ''[[:w:Noctes Atticae, Noctes Atticae] (Aulus Gellius).