Definition of "raddle"

raddle¹

/ˈɹædəl/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural raddles
1. A red ochre.
verb
third-person singular simple present raddles, present participle raddling, simple past and past participle raddled
1. To mark with raddle; to daub something red.
2. To interweave or twist together.
  Quotations
  raddling or working it up like basket work
  1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719
3. To do work in a slovenly way.

raddle²

/ˈɹædəl/

noun
plural raddles
1. A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
2. A hedge or fence made with raddles.
  Quotations
  A raddle - hedge is a hedge of pleached or plash'd or twisted or wreathed twigs or boughs
  1815, Charles Richardson, Illustrations of English Philology
3. 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.