raddle

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹædəl/

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• Rhymes: -ædəl

From a variation of reddle, ruddle. Related to red.

raddle (countable and uncountable, plural raddles)

1. A red ochre.

• reddle
• ruddle

raddle (third-person singular simple present raddles, present participle raddling, simple past and past participle raddled)

1. To mark with raddle; to daub something red.
2. To interweave or twist together.
   • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:

     raddling or working it up like basket work

3. To do work in a slovenly way.

• reddle
• ruddle

• ruddy
• raddled

From earlier radel, redle (noun), and ruddle (verb), perhaps a transposition of hurdle or an alteration of riddle (“curtain”).

raddle (plural raddles)

1. A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
2. A hedge or fence made with raddles.
   • 1815, Charles Richardson, Illustrations of English Philology:

     A raddle - hedge is a hedge of pleached or plash'd or twisted or wreathed twigs or boughs

3. An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.

• (weavers' tool): evener, niffler

• Aldred, ladder, larded