raddlemann.
/ˈradlman/, /ˈradlmən/, U.S. /ˈræd(ə)lˌmæn/, /ˈræd(ə)lmən/ rare.† 2. British regional. A disease of wheat caused by the nematode Anguina tritici, characterized by small galls on the grains; = ear cockle n. Obsolete.
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a. English regional. In proverbial and allusive use: Rutlandshire; an inhabitant or native of Rutlandshire.
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1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxiii. 71 Little Rutlandshire is tearmed Raddleman.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Rutl. 347 Rutland Raddleman... Rad here is the same with red, (onely more broadly pronounced)..Raddleman then is a Reddleman.
1891 C. Wordsworth Rutland Words 29 Ruddleman, var. pron. of ‘raddleman’. Dr Sebastian Evans quotes this from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, III., ii., 2, 2, and though belonging rather to Leicestershire, I repeat it here because the name is proverbially attached to Rutlanders by Ray, &c.
1997 Guardian 1 Apr. ii. 4/4 Rutlanders—or Raddlemen as they prefer to be known—thought so.
b. A digger of, or dealer in, raddle. Now historical.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in ruddle
ruddleman1632
raddleman1637
reddlemana1661
keelman1829
1637 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione 141 As they went a Raddle-man they meet.
1684 G. S. Anglorum Speculum xxxiii. 581 Rutland Raddleman, A poor sort of Trader, that sells red stones or Oker for the marking of sheep.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 222 Raddleman, a digger of ‘raddle’, or dealer in it.
1941 E. Blunden Thomas Hardy iii. 42 A singular literary truth is connected with the startling figure of the raddleman.
1998 D. Pool What Jane Austen ate & Charles Dickens Knew (new ed.) 137 The ‘raddle’ (red earth) purveyed by raddlemen like Diggory Venn of The Return of the Native.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > caused by insects > associated with crop or food plants
cockle1777
ear cockle1777
raddleman1798
purple1807
yellows1808
sedging1820
gout1828
sedge-root1837
leaf blister1858
tulip-root1875
root-knot1888
1798 Ann. Agric. 26 177 Raddleman, ear-cockle, the disease in wheat due to Vibrio tritici. Sal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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