raddle

rad·dle

transitive verb

-·dled, -·dling

interweave (sense )

Origin of raddle

from dialect, dialectal raddle, a slender rod interwoven in a fence from Anglo-French reidele, cart rail, stout pole from Old French ridelle from Middle High German reidel, cudgel

noun

transitive verb

-·dled, -·dling

var. of ruddle

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raddle

transitive verb

rad·dled, rad·dling, rad·dles

To twist together; interweave.

Origin of raddle

From dialectal raddle stick interwoven with others in a fence from Anglo-Norman reidele stout pole possibly from Middle High German reidel rod ; see reidh- in Indo-European roots.

noun

verb

Variant of ruddle

transitive verb

rad·dled, rad·dling, rad·dles

To cause to have a worn-out appearance, especially in having wrinkles or deep creases: “[She] was attractive to men and to women, until her diet of alcohol and cigarettes … raddled her beauty” ( Jeanette Winterson )

Origin of raddle

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Noun

(plural raddles)

A red ochre.

Verb

(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.

Origin

Related to red.

Noun

(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.
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.

Origin

Compare German word for "sieve", or perhaps English reed.

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