ruddleman

plural ruddlemen · alternative raddleman · alternative reddleman

1. Someone who deals in ruddle (red ochre), usually itinerant and red-stained

   And little Rutlandshire is tearmed Raddleman.

   1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 23

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   The traveller with the cart was a reddleman - a person whose vocation was to supply farmers with redding for their sheep.

   1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 9