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reddle

reddle noun: red ochre, historically used to mark sheep.

Noun

reddle (countable and uncountable, plural reddles)

  1. Red ochre, historically used to mark sheep
    • All that reddlemen do is sell reddle. You see those bags at the back of my cart? They are […] only full of red stuff.1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 87

Verb

reddle (third-person singular simple present reddles, present participle reddling, simple past and past participle reddled)

  1. To redden.
    • Reddled and waxed, the room's stone floor was set perhaps two feet below the outside ground.1983, Samuel R. Delany, Neveryóna

reddle meaning in Tamil

reddle in Tamil

செங்கழுநீர்க்கல், காந்தியதிகமேனி, கல், அரத்தமாரணம்

Synonyms of reddle

Forms of reddle

Noun
pluralreddles
Verb
third-person singular presentreddles
present participlereddling
past participlereddled
pastreddled

Origin of reddle

Apparently a variation of ruddle, though not certainly.

Words formed from reddle

Questions about reddle

What does reddle mean?
Reddle means red ochre, historically used to mark sheep.
What is reddle in Tamil?
Reddle in Tamil is செங்கழுநீர்க்கல், காந்தியதிகமேனி, கல். See Reddle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is reddle?
Reddle can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of reddle?
The plural of reddle is reddles.

Words near reddle in the dictionary

  1. reddits
  2. Redditt
  3. Redditts
  4. Reddix
  5. Reddixes
  6. reddle
  7. reddled
  8. reddleman
  9. reddlemen
  10. reddles
  11. reddling

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reddle (page history and authors); reddle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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