Redbed vs Redded – What’s the difference?

Redbed vs Redded - What's the difference?

As a noun redbed is (geology) any clastic and sedimentary rock that is pigmented with red ferric oxide.

As a verb redded is (redd).

redbed

English

Noun

(en noun )

(geology) any clastic and sedimentary rock that is pigmented with red ferric oxide

Anagrams

redded

English

Verb

(head)

(redd)

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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