Definition of "redd" [redd]

• Chiefly Pennsylvania To clear: redd the dinner table. (verb-transitive)
• Redd up To tidy: redded up the front room. (phrasal-verb)
• A spawning nest made by a fish, especially a salmon or trout. (noun)

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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."
• "A redd is a place where fish "spawn," or lay eggs."
• "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.""