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Meanings of raddle in English

An earthy variety of hematite iron ore, used as a pigment.

To make, as fabric, by interlacing threads.

Small wood or sticks split like laths to bind a wall for plastering it over with loam or mortar.

A hedge formed by interweaving the shoots and branches of trees or shrubs.

Usage of raddle in English
1
Old Wellington face, shrunk, cheeks burning in a senile raddle.
Mary Olivier: a Life
2
There is a removable loom attachment which when first shown to me was called a raddle.
Home Life in Colonial Days
3
Fol-der-rol, de-rol de raddle, fol--
The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair / ...
4
Oh, fol-de-rol, de raddle rol.
The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair / ...
5
But since the white people came the blue bag has put yellow out of fashion, and raddle is used for the red.
The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
6
The narcotic- and agony-raddled memories of the punishment factory had assaulted him.
The Scar
7
They had seen, perhaps, the raddled face of some final awful retribution.
The stand
8
Compared with the others, these were small, but raddled with damage.
Enclave
9
The last of the free wizards crept through the raddled landscape like ghosts.
Hidden Warrior
10
He makes a living ghostwriting the autobiographies of raddled showbiz veterans.
The Guardian
11
As it turns out, Mary is raddled, deluded and usually drunk.
The Guardian
12
You can hear it - the raddled echo of Nuremberg.
The Guardian
13
Listen, Doctor, do you seriously want to be part of some raddled witch's septic ovaries?
Death Trance
14
And as they become more insane and addicted and raddled with disease, the quantity increased.
The skein of lament
15
The others soon followed in ones and twos, looking equally raddled except for Lynx, as usual.
Hidden Warrior
16
It has portrayed the unrest as the work of drug-raddled youths, terrorists and al Qaeda militants.
Reuters
Frequent collocations
Raddle through the time