raddle

Plural: raddles

Noun

• a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking
• A red ochre.
• 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.

Verb

Verb Forms: raddled, raddling, raddles

• To interweave or entwine something together.
• twist or braid together, interlace
• mark or paint with raddle
• To mark with raddle; to daub something red.
• To interweave or twist together.
• To do work in a slovenly way.

Examples

• She tried to raddle her letters into a valid word, but the consonants resisted.

Synonyms

reddle, ruddle, evener, niffler

Related Words

raddled, ruddy

Anagrams of raddle