reddle
English edit
Etymology edit
Apparently a variation of ruddle, though not certainly.
Noun edit
reddle (countable and uncountable, plural reddles)
- Red ochre, historically used to mark sheep
- 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 87:
- All that reddlemen do is sell reddle. You see those bags at the back of my cart? They are […] only full of red stuff.
Synonyms edit
Verb edit
reddle (third-person singular simple present reddles, present participle reddling, simple past and past participle reddled)
- To redden.
- 1983, Samuel R. Delany, Neveryóna::
- Reddled and waxed, the room's stone floor was set perhaps two feet below the outside ground.