raddle
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹædəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ædəl
Etymology 1
From a variation of reddle, ruddle. Related to red.
Noun
raddle (countable and uncountable, plural raddles)
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Verb
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.
- 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
- To do work in a slovenly way.
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mark with raddle
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Etymology 2
From earlier radel, redle (noun), and ruddle (verb), perhaps a transposition of hurdle or an alteration of riddle (“curtain”).
Noun
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.
- 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
- 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.
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