raddle means A red ochre. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
raddle is pronounced /ˈɹædəl/.
noun
- A red ochre.
- A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
- A hedge or fence made with raddles.“A raddle - hedge is a hedge of pleached or plash'd or twisted or wreathed twigs or boughs”
- 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.
verb
- To mark with raddle; to daub something red.
- To interweave or twist together.“raddling or working it up like basket work”
- To do work in a slovenly way.