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ruddle

/ˈɹʌdəl/

ruddle noun: a form of red ochre sometimes used to mark sheep.

Noun (1)

ruddle (countable and uncountable, plural ruddles)

  1. A form of red ochre sometimes used to mark sheep.
  2. (obsolete) Ruddiness; red coloration.

Verb (1)

ruddle (third-person singular simple present ruddles, present participle ruddling, simple past and past participle ruddled)

  1. To mark something with red ochre.
    Synonyms:
    raddle, redden, reddle
  2. To raddle or twist.

Noun (2)

ruddle (plural ruddles)

  1. A riddle or sieve.
    • They will not passe thorough the holes of the sieve, ruddle or trie, if they be narrow.1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC

Verb (2)

ruddle (third-person singular simple present ruddles, present participle ruddling, simple past and past participle ruddled)

  1. (transitive) To sift together; to mix, as through a sieve.

Proper noun capitalized: Ruddle

Ruddle (countable and uncountable, plural Ruddles)

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States.

ruddle meaning in Tamil

ruddle in Tamil

செங்காவி, காவி

Synonyms of ruddle

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Forms of ruddle

Noun
pluralruddles
Verb
third-person singular presentruddles
present participleruddling
past participleruddled
pastruddled
Proper noun
pluralRuddles

Origin of ruddle

From rud + -le. Compare German Rötel (“track”), Post-Classical Latin rudellum. Compare to reddle and raddle.

Variant of Ruddell.

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Questions about ruddle

What does ruddle mean?
Ruddle means a form of red ochre sometimes used to mark sheep.
What is ruddle in Tamil?
Ruddle in Tamil is செங்காவி, காவி. See Ruddle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ruddle?
Ruddle can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ruddle?
Ruddle is pronounced /ˈɹʌdəl/.
What is the plural of ruddle?
The plural of ruddle is ruddles.

Words near ruddle in the dictionary

  1. ruddily
  2. ruddiness
  3. ruddinesses
  4. rudding
  5. Ruddington
  6. ruddle
  7. ruddled
  8. ruddleman
  9. ruddlemen
  10. ruddles
  11. ruddling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ruddle (page history and authors); Ruddle (page history and authors); ruddle (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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