(n.) A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
(n.) A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle hedge.
(n.) An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
(v. t.) To interweave or twist together.
(n.) A red pigment used in marking sheep, and in some mechanical processes; ruddle.
(v. t.) To mark or paint with, or as with, raddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Raddled and old, a self-possessed, semi-naked fool in ridiculous shoes, Lucian Freud painted himself old and mad, looming in that awful room in west London where he spent day after day, decade after decade, scrutinising the horrible walls, the thin light as it fell on his subjects, those piles of soiled rags that he used to wipe off his canvases and clean his brushes.
(2) It’s completely riddled and raddled with basic problems of economic logic.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Professor Patrick Minford.
(3) In the end it’s her film – and Dunbar’s drink-raddled, tragic life can be gifted by Barnard, becoming ours.
(4) Yeah”), but whereas everyone else on both sides is looking more raddled by the day, the 65-year-old boss of Britain’s biggest union is a picture of relaxed health.
(5) Two intact raddled rams were introduced to the combined groups on August 21.
(6) They’re selected for looking photogenically raddled – their age, essentially – and then coaxed into various postures of dejection, presumably by a photographer shouting, “What have you got to look forward to, your upcoming appointment at the colorectal clinic?
(7) Nicole Kidman's turn in The Paperboy, which saw her almost unrecognisable as the raddled jailhouse fiancée of a death-row inmate, has arrived from nowhere for a best supporting actress nomination.