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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.

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Examples for "ruddle"
Examples for "ruddle"
1
Rick Ruddle was Jack's hike leader and a sound engineer from Portland.
Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
2
Antoine Gouedard-Comte beat Mark Ruddle from close range to put France ahead after 16 minutes.
The Irish Times
3
I learned at the newspaper office that he had called for the rejected manuscript bearing his name,-ErnestRuddle.
Tales from Bohemia
4
It was a peculiar name,-ErnestRuddle.
Tales from Bohemia
5
The report finds that Róisín Ruddle would have had a greater chance of survival had the surgery gone ahead.
The Irish Times
1
Since I have taken to the reddle trade I travel a good deal, as you know.
The Return of the Native
2
All that reddlemen do is sell reddle.
The Return of the Native
3
"I gave up dealing in reddle last Christmas," said Venn.
The Return of the Native
4
"Not altogether the selling of reddle?"
The Return of the Native
1
They were small sheep, striped on the backs with red chalk.
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
2
In the original the drawing and writing are both in red chalk.]
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2
3
They should have one side sufficiently smooth to be distinctly marked with red chalk.
Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health
4
And this time it wasn't red chalk-dust flying through the air; it was blood.
Meltdown
5
In natural red chalk rubbed with finger; the high lights are picked out with rubber.
The Practice and Science of Drawing

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