n. A kind of fishweir resembling a wattle or fence.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A kind of basketwork weir in a river, for catching fish.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A weir or fence of stakes or twigs, set in a stream for catching fish.
n. A fish-basket.
A dialectal variant of cuddle.
A dialectal variant of kittle.
Word Usage
"[Footnote: If a student of philology were allowed to touch on such high matters as legislation, I would moralize on the word kiddle, meaning an illegal kind of weir used for fish-poaching, whence perhaps the surname"