(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.
Ruddy
Definition:
(n.) Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy flame.
(n.) Of a lively flesh color, or the color of the human skin in high health; as, ruddy cheeks or lips.
(v. t.) To make ruddy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Agüero’s run was as strong as it was skilful, beating four attempted tacklers in a drive into the penalty area that ended with him poking the ball past Ruddy as the goalkeeper came out to narrow the angle.
(2) Everton were level as Barkley lashed the ball past John Ruddy with his left foot after Seamus Coleman had cut inside from the right flank.
(3) Bony three times had chances to open the scoring but found Ruddy equal to his first speculative effort, then he missed the target completely from a better opportunity set up by Kelechi Iheanacho.
(4) Seven remain missing: McVeigh, SAS Captain Robert Nairac, Joe Lynskey, Seamus Wright, Kevin McKee, Brendan Megraw and Seamus Ruddy.
(6) Alex Song was the provider, and Van Persie improvised to outwit John Ruddy with a deliciously delicate touch.
(7) Ruddy did not immediately respond to questions seeking clarification.
(8) The Spaniard turned up in the box at just the right time to turn in a cross from Jones after Ruddy had made another good save, this time from Rooney, without succeeding in pushing the ball dead.
(9) Pellegrini brought on Dzeko for Jovetic, but while his side continued to dominate possession they rarely forced Ruddy into action, and in the final few minutes Norwich should have won the game.
(10) With John Ruddy completely wrong-footed, Loïc Rémy opened the scoring, directing a simple, far-post close-range header into the empty net.
(11) Two years later, it remains in ruddy health as Malawian voters head to the polls today for an election that no one can predict.
(12) Ruddy might have got a touch, but the goalkeeper made an unquestionably fine save when David Silva laid the ball back for Jovetic to volley just before half-time.
(13) Hatem Ben Arfa picked out Moussa Sissoko with a pass inside City full-back Martin Olsson, and the midfielder pulled the ball back perfectly for Rémy, but the striker's shot was easily saved by Ruddy.
(14) Other features include upper body edema and ruddiness or cyanosis, distended neck veins, proptosis, and conjunctival suffusion.
(15) It was a smart finish and Tadic’s second followed minutes later, after Ruddy had pushed out Pellè’s header from Cédric Soares’ cross.
(16) Of course, that means José Mourinho needs someone else to kick balls at Thibaut Courtois when warming up for matches and look interested sitting behind him in the Stamford Bridge dug-out and José reckons John Ruddy is just the man.
(17) It mattered little, though, as Gallagher slotted the ball under the Norwich goalkeeper John Ruddy from 12 yards after a Jack King knock-down with 19 minutes to go.
(18) City goalkeeper John Ruddy looked calm enough as he watched Rémy's early effort curl outside his left-hand post, but the shot was inches rather than feet wide.
(19) Within 10 minutes, Ruddy had made the outstanding save of the match, in a second half also notable for Jake Livermore's debut.
(20) The world is flat in ways the high-flying global theoreticians don't always acknowledge; these days, even someone from the materially fortunate parts of the world – a man with a ruddy complexion, a woman in a Prada suit – is pulled aside for what is quixotically known as "random screening".