Ruddle

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  • noun. Red ocherous iron ore, used in dyeing and marking.
  • transitive verb. To dye or mark with or as if with red ocher.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To sift together; mix as through a sieve.
  • To raddle; interweave; crossplait, as twigs or split sticks in making latticework or wattles.
  • noun. Same as reddle.
  • noun. . Ruddiness; redness.
  • To mark with ruddle.
  • noun. A dialectal variant of riddle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To mark with ruddle; to raddle; to rouge.
  • noun. A riddle or sieve.
  • transitive verb. To raddle or twist.
  • noun. A species of red earth colored by iron sesquioxide; red ocher.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A form of red ochre sometimes used to mark sheep
  • verb. To mark something with red ochre
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking
  • verb. twist or braid together, interlace
  • verb. redden as if with a red ocher color
  • Word Usage
    "There are those who think that remodelled waists and new caps had better be kept to the towns; but such people, if they would follow out their own argument, would wish to see plough-boys painted with ruddle and milkmaids covered with skins."
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    Form
    ruddleman  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Udell  befuddle  cuddle  huddle  muddle  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    raddle  reddle  rouge  
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