The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ruddle \Rud"dle\, v. t. To raddle or twist. [Obs.]
Ruddle \Rud"dle\, n.
A riddle or sieve. [Obs.]
--Holland.
Ruddle \Rud"dle\, n. [See Rud; cf. Reddle.] (Min.) A species of red earth colored by iron sesquioxide; red ocher.
Ruddle \Rud"dle\, v. t.
To mark with ruddle; to raddle; to rouge. ``Their ruddled
cheeks.''
--Thackeray.
A fair sheep newly ruddled.
--Lady M. W.
Montagu.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A form of red ochre sometimes used to mark sheep vb. 1 To mark something with red ochre. 2 To raddle or twist. Etymology 2
n. A riddle or sieve.
WordNet
v. twist or braid together, interlace [syn: raddle]
redden as if with a red ocher color
Usage examples of "ruddle".
They were allowed every opportunity to inspect his collection of bric-a-brac, for Mrs Ruddle made the round of the room, candle in hand, to point out all its beauties.
He retired into the scullery, where Mrs Ruddle, armed with a hand-bowl, was scooping boiling water from the copper into a large bath-can.
He withdrew in the direction of the back door, where, to judge by the sounds, h was received by Mrs Ruddle with a volume of explanatory narrative.
At the entrance of Crutchley and Mrs Ruddle with the gun, however, he began to retreat, noiselessly and backwards, like a cat who has accidentally stepped in a pool of spilt perfume.
The shrill outcry of Mrs Ruddle and Miss Twitterton was drowned by the eruptive rumble and boom that echoed from bend to bend of the forty-foot flue.
The draught beer in the cellar being at the moment not readily available, I took the liberty of instructing Mrs Ruddle to fetch a few bottles of Bass from the village.
The role, though dull, was not a useless one, for Mrs Ruddle, with a large knife in her hand, was standing at the scullery door as though prepared to carry out a butcherly kind of post-mortem upon whatever might be brought up from the cellar.
Mrs Ruddle broke off in the middle of a spirited piece of narrative to listen.
Mrs Ruddle is in such a state of excitement that she has probably boiled the milk and put the tea-leaves into the sandwiches.
The precipitate entry of Mrs Ruddle with the tea-tray gave weight to the supposition.
Mrs Ruddle had made up a bed for him in one of the back rooms, and this, though of minor importance, brought with it a certain satisfaction.
Unless you prefer to believe that Noakes made improper advances to Mrs Ruddle and she dotted him one accordingly.
He goes upstairs, through the trap-door on to the roof, and Mrs Ruddle holds the ladder while he gets down.
Mrs Ruddle to have gone away without hearing the end of the row, when you come to think of it.
Mrs Ruddle, on the doorstep, was holding a kind of court among the reporters.