raddle

English

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

raddle (countable and uncountable, plural raddles)

red ochre

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

To mark with raddle; to daub something red.
To interweave or twist together.
- Daniel Defoe
  raddling or working it up like basket work
To do work in a slovenly way.

mark with raddle

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

raddle (plural raddles)

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.
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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.