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redding

verb
SayRED-ing/ˈɹɛdɪŋ/

1 meaning of redding

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  1. 1
    verb
    Present participle and gerund of redd.

    The children were redding the garden of weeds before supper.

    Redding the old papers out of the attic took the whole weekend.

    Note

    One -ing form doing two jobs: after be it works as a participle (were redding the garden), and as the subject of a sentence it works as a gerund (Redding the old papers took the weekend). The verb behind it has a northern home. Its senses of freeing something from entanglement or embarrassment are obsolete, while combing hair, fixing boundaries, parting fighters and settling a quarrel belong to Scotland and Northern England.

redding is a form of redd

redd, verb: To clean something and set it in order, putting each object back in its proper place. Full entry

Forms
redd also past tense, past participleredds he/she/itredding -ing form
Spelling
redd → redding: add -ing

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