raddle

plural raddles

1. countableuncountableA red ochre.

   Synonyms: reddle, ruddle

present singular third person raddles · participle present raddling · participle past raddled · past raddled

1. To mark with raddle; to daub something red.

   Synonyms: redden, reddle, ruddle

2. To interweave or twist together.

   raddling or working it up like basket work

   1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC

   Synonyms: interlace, lace, ruddle, betwine, braid, entwist, entwine, interlace

3. To do work in a slovenly way.

   Synonyms: schlep, slaister, slob

plural raddles

1. A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
2. A hedge or fence made with raddles.

   A raddle - hedge is a hedge of pleached or plash'd or twisted or wreathed twigs or boughs

   1815, Charles Richardson, Illustrations of English Philology

3. 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.

   Synonyms: evener, niffler