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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From rud + -le. Compare German Rötel (“track”), Post-Classical Latin rudellum.[1] Compare to reddle and raddle.
Nomen
[edit]ruddle (countable and uncountable, plural ruddles)
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[edit]Verb
[edit]ruddle (third-person singular simple present ruddles, present participle ruddling, simple past and past participle ruddled)
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- OED 2nd edition 1989
Etymology 2
[edit]Nomen
[edit]ruddle (plural ruddles)
- A riddle oder sieve.
- 1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC:
- They will not passe thorough the holes of the sieve, ruddle or trie, if they be narrow.
Verb
[edit]ruddle (third-person singular simple present ruddles, present participle ruddling, simple past and past participle ruddled)
- (transitive) To sift together; to mix, as through a sieve.
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