What does "reddle" mean?

Red ochre, historically used to mark sheep

What is a synonym for "reddle"?

Common synonyms include: raddle, ruddle, raddle, raddle, ruddle, ruddle.

noun, verb

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Noun

1
Red ochre, historically used to mark sheep countable, uncountable
"All that reddlemen do is sell reddle. You see those bags at the back of my cart? They are […] only full of red stuff."
2
a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking wordnet

Verb

1
To redden.
"Reddled and waxed, the room's stone floor was set perhaps two feet below the outside ground."

"All that reddlemen do is sell reddle. You see those bags at the back of my cart? They are […] only full of red stuff."

Apparently a variation of ruddle, though not certainly.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.