reddle

plural reddles

1. countableuncountableRed 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

present singular third person reddles · participle present reddling · participle past reddled · past reddled

1. To redden.

   Reddled and waxed, the room's stone floor was set perhaps two feet below the outside ground.

   1983, Samuel R. Delany, Neveryóna