raddle

Meanings

Noun

• A red ochre.
• A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
• A hedge or fence made with raddles.
• 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.

Verb

• To mark with raddle; to daub something red.
• To interweave or twist together.
• To do work in a slovenly way.

Related

Similar words

• reddle
• ruddle
• evener, niffler

Origin

• From a variation of reddle, ruddle. Related to red.
• From earlier radel, redle, and ruddle, perhaps a transposition of hurdle or an alteration of riddle.