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US
/ˈɹədəɫ/
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VERB
- twist or braid together, interlace
- redden as if with a red ocher color
NOUN
- a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking
How To Use ruddle In A Sentence
- It was extracted from ruddle (red ochre) and limonite The Land of Midian
- Ruddle, F.H. Genetic transformation of mouse embryos by microinjection of purified DNA. The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information
- Such are the kinds of stones that cannot be melted, and realgar, and ochre, and ruddle, and sulphur, and the other things of that kind, most Meteorology
- “It will not suffer milk to cruddle in the stomach, and therefore it is put in milk that is drunke… Spearmint” Gaius Plinius Secundus - Naturalis Historia 77CE Archive 2007-09-01
- Mrs. Ruddle had been employed as a charlady when the Wimseys first moved into the house, and had never quite resigned the right to come and go there. Presumption of Death
- The matter thrown out was a stream of metal and minerals, rendered liquid by the fierceness of the fire, which boiled up at the mouth like water at the head of a great river; and having run a little way, the extremity thereof began to crust and cruddle, turning into large porous stones, resembling cakes of burning sea-coal. A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
- The role, though dull, was not a useless one, for Mrs Ruddle, with a large knife in her hand, was standing at the scullery door as though prepared to carry out a butcherly kind of post-mortem upon whatever might be brought up from the cellar. Busman's Honeymoon