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.
- How on earth did it lose out to that raddled, brassy old barmaid