Crossword clues for raddle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Raddle \Rad"dle\ (r[a^]d"d'l), n. [Cf. G. r["a]der, r["a]del, sieve, or perhaps E. reed.]
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.
A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle hedge.
--Todd.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 \Rad"dle\ (r[a^]d"d'l), v. t. To interweave or twist together.
Raddling or working it up like basket work.
--De Foe.
Raddle \Rad"dle\ (r[a^]d"d'l), n. [Cf. Ruddle.]
A red pigment used in marking sheep, and in some mechanical
processes; ruddle. ``A raddle of rouge.''
--Thackeray.
Raddle \Rad"dle\, v. t.
To mark or paint with, or as with, raddle. ``Whitened and
raddled old women.''
--Thackeray.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A red ochre. vb. 1 To mark with raddle; to daub something red. 2 To interweave or twist together. Etymology 2
n. 1 A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence. 2 A hedge or fence made with raddles. 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.
WordNet
Usage examples of "raddle".
The Signora, a big raddled motherly Neapolitan, welcomed Monique like a long lost child and seemed surprised when we insisted on a separate room for her.
Bird and orangutan, who had managed to secure three long rails, held back fearfully from the shop, since the freezing aura of the silver raddled our essences even halfway across the street.
Yet Knucklebones was raddled with scars from years of fighting, and could ignore pain and distress to keep herself alive in a fight.
He limped, stiff, bruised, raddled with scabs that itched and cracked, clumsy with one eye, and muzzy from a bandage swaddling his skull.
Skin glowed vivid red laced with black tattoos, a horn jutted from his bony chin, two more horns downcurved from his temples to frame his raddled face.
The face, though ugly as a hidebehind made visible, was not so wrinkled and raddled as the shadows of the keep had made it seem.
One of her raddled old handmaidens hurries forward out of the shadows, bearing a tray.
The eight ball, a rock dark with magnesium oxide, cannoned forward, gaining velocity toward a quarter-planetoid raddled by the eternal passage of fragments.
Wolfgang nodded his head at the screen, where the big display showed the smudged and raddled face of Earth.
The buildings were remarkable at this distance not so much for boldness, their bright aspiring, as for the raddled emotions they called forth, the amber mood, evoking as they did some of the ache of stunning ruins.
The uncertain light of dusk softened their raddled features and hectic painted cheeks and lips - Huy wondered what solace a man could find with the likes of them.
His face was still raddled with fatigue, the dark eyes still underscored by bluish purple smears, the skin pale and drawn, but he was smiling at Lannon with an expression of loyal affection.
One cylindrical affair in Hammersmith had its mirror-smooth face swell up, as if raddled by some metallic disease, before settling into a new pattern of angular bumps and channels.
Holroyd, an elderly widow of raddled appearance who slouched around in a flowered overall down which ash cascaded from a permanently dangling cigarette.
Yet Knucklebones was raddled with scars from years of fighting, and could ignore pain and distress to keep herself alive in a fight.