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Raddle

//ˈɹædəl// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A red ochre. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
  3. 3
    a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking wordnet
  4. 4
    A hedge or fence made with raddles.

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

  5. 5
    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
  1. 1
    To mark with raddle; to daub something red.
  2. 2
    mark or paint with raddle wordnet
  3. 3
    To interweave or twist together.

    "raddling or working it up like basket work"

  4. 4
    twist or braid together, interlace wordnet
  5. 5
    To do work in a slovenly way.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

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