reddle
verbEtymology Apparently a variation of ruddle, though not certainly.
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To redden.
- Reddled and waxed, the room's stone floor was set perhaps two feet below the outside ground.1983, Samuel R. Delany, Neveryóna::
reddle
nounEtymology Apparently a variation of ruddle, though not certainly.
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Red ochre, historically used to mark sheep
- All that reddlemen do is sell reddle. You see those bags at the back of my cart? They are […] only full of red stuff.1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 87:
- Derived terms
- reddleman