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▪ I. ruddle, n.1|ˈrʌd(ə)l|
Also 6 ruddell, 6–7, 9 dial. rudle.
[Related to rud n.1 and v.1 See also raddle and reddle.]
A red variety of ochre used for marking sheep and for colouring; red ochre, reddle.
1538Elyot, Rubrica,..ruddle wherwith shepe are marked. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Sinopis, a redde stone commonly called Sinoper, or Ruddle. 1576Baker Jewell of Health 42 The redde chalke (that we name Ruddell). 1601Holland Pliny I. 147 They colour and paint their bodies with a kind of red chalk or rudle called Rubrica. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. ix. 329 The mixture of the white of an Egg and Carpenters ruddle. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 499 Tho' the ruddle, if the sheep be much ruddled, weighs to our loss, yet that washes out. 1777Forster Voy. round World I. 138 Their hair was black, and curling, and smeared with oil and ruddle. 1848B. D. Walsh Aristoph. 11 note, To sweep the market-place with a rope covered with vermilion or ruddle. 1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country ii. 477 The florist bedded thick His primrose-root in ruddle.
fig.1697D. Baker Poems 11 His Skin..All over Ruddle is, and from His flaming Eyes quick glances come.
attrib. and Comb.1647Hexham i. (Precious stones), A Ruddle stone, een Vermillioen steen. 1837Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes II. 106 Fly to avoid the ruddle-colour'd rope.
▪ II. ˈruddle, n.2
var. of riddle n.2 1. Now dial.
1582in Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 172 In þe ketchenge 2 wynder cloes, 9 seckes, 3 ruddles, and a seife. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 86 They will not passe thorough the holes of the sieve, ruddle or trie, if they be narrow. 1703Thoresby Let. to Ray, Rudle, a ridle. 1877Holderness Gloss., Ruddle, a sieve; a riddle.
▪ III. ˈruddle, n.3
[Of obscure origin.]
(See quots.)
1823E. Moor Suffolk Wds. 323 Rudle, a beverage composed of warm beer and gin with sugar, and a slice of lemon peel. 1889Sat. Rev. 9 Nov. 519/1 Dog's-nose, egg-hot, ruddle, and the like are agreeable stimulants on a frosty night.
▪ IV. ruddle, v.|ˈrʌd(ə)l|
[f. ruddle n.1]
trans. To mark, smear, or paint with ruddle. Also absol.
1718Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. II. 81, I am apt to believe, that they took the first hint of their dress from a fair sheep newly ruddled. 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 43, I learned to make such letters as are ruddled into packs. 1804W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. II. 280 A severer criticism construes the epithet to mean ruddled, or painted red. 1859W. White Northumbld. & Border xxviii. 440 A woman..was ruddling her doorstep. 1876R. F. Burton Gorilla L. I. 206 A fan of palm frond redolent of grease and ruddled with ochre.
fig.1860H. Mayhew Upp. Rhine iv. 178 [A] red ribbon on his coat to ruddle him with the mark of a superior breed. 1960S. Plath Colossus 52 Imagine their deep hunger, deep as the dark For the blood-heat that would ruddle or reclaim.
Hence ˈruddled ppl. a.
1861Thackeray Four Georges i. (1862) 53 Kielmansegge and Schulenberg with their ruddled cheeks. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. i. 28 One of the deeply ruddled sheep that spent their lives on those precipitous slopes.
▪ V. ruddle
var. raddle n.1 |