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Ruddle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Red ocherous iron ore, used in dyeing and marking.

v. To dye or mark with or as if with red ocher: ruddle sheep.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A form of red ochre sometimes used to mark sheep

v. To mark something with red ochre

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To raddle or twist.

n. A riddle or sieve.

n. A species of red earth colored by iron sesquioxide; red ocher.

v. To mark with ruddle; to raddle; to rouge.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Same as reddle.

n. . Ruddiness; redness.

To mark with ruddle.

n. A dialectal variant of riddle.

To sift together; mix as through a sieve.

To raddle; interweave; crossplait, as twigs or split sticks in making latticework or wattles.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking

v. twist or braid together, interlace

v. redden as if with a red ocher color

Word Usage

"There are those who think that remodelled waists and new caps had better be kept to the towns; but such people, if they would follow out their own argument, would wish to see plough-boys painted with ruddle and milkmaids covered with skins."

Verb Form

ruddled ruddles ruddling

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

iron ore weave interweave redden

Cross Reference

lemnian ruddle

Form

ruddleman

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

raddle rouge reddle

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Udell befuddle cuddle huddle muddle puddle