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verb
Raddle  v. t.  To interweave or twist together. "Raddling or working it up like basket work."


Raddle  v. t.  To mark or paint with, or as with, raddle. "Whitened and raddled old women."


noun
Raddle  n.  
1.
A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
2.
A hedge or fence made with raddles; called also raddle hedge.
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.


Raddle  n.  A red pigment used in marking sheep, and in some mechanical processes; ruddle. "A raddle of rouge."





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"Raddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... and always have been known, to every town and city which has ever dared to call itself civilized since history began. From Lais in her jewelled litter to Cora in her English landau in the Bois, and on to the shabbiest small slut who flaunts her raddle and her broken feather in the slums of London, the same story is told and the same moral preached. Where is an equal army of men to be found to invite the contumely of their own sex? A woman's virtue is her continence, and a man's virtues are truthfulness and ...
— Despair's Last Journey • David Christie Murray
... said I. "And grant me leave to tell you that a woman of mature years, possessed of an abundant fortune and unassailable gentility, does not by ordinary sneak out of the kitchen door to meet a raddle-faced actor in the middle of the night. 'Tis, indeed, a circumstance to stagger human credulity. Oh, believe me, madam, for a virtuous woman the back garden is not a fitting approach to the altar, nor is a comedian an appropriate companion there at ...
— Gallantry - Dizain des Fetes Galantes • James Branch Cabell


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