reddle
English
Etymology
Apparently a variation of ruddle, though not certainly.
Noun
reddle (countable and uncountable, plural reddles)
- Red ochre, historically used to mark sheep
- 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 87:
- All that reddlemen do is sell reddle. You see those bags at the back of my cart? They are […] only full of red stuff.
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