raddle
IPA: rˈædʌɫ
noun
- 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
- To mark with raddle; to daub something red.
- To interweave or twist together.
- To do work in a slovenly way.
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Examples of "raddle" in Sentences
- Thus the raddle is the paint pot, rather than the mark.
- With raddle painted faces, and mud smeared into our hair,
- Maybe the raddle lied and the ram snuck back a fortnight later?
- How on earth did it lose out to that raddled, brassy old barmaid
- We'll no hae yon thing raddle us wi 'radiation and pluck us apart bit by bit.
- I mean, I don't search for that "God" everyone seems to raddle on about, or search for any type of truth.
- Anyone who doesn't wish to know the function of a raddle in the insemination of sheep had better look away now.
- Some of us have more serious things to hide than a yellow cheek behind a raddle of rouge, or a white poll under a wig of jetty curls.
- It may have been used as a sort of a "raddle," a tool used for assisting to keep the warp threads in position when being beamed, _i. e._ put on to the loom.
- As for the generals who go galloping up and down among bomb-shells in absurd cocked hats — as for the actors who raddle their faces and demean themselves for hire upon the stage — they must belong, thank
- From Lais in her jewelled litter to Cora in her English landau in the Bois, and on to the shabbiest small slut who flaunts her raddle and her broken feather in the slums of London, the same story is told and the same moral preached.
- The house in which I spent the greater portion of my youth was a mansion of the olden time, whose pointed gables told a tale of years; and whose internal walls and principal floors, both below and above stairs, were formed of "raddle and daub."
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