A red pigment used in marking sheep, and in some mechanical processes; ruddle.

To mark or paint with, or as with, raddle.

A sticky coloured paste applied to a ram's belly at breeding time to enable served ewes to be marked. Sometime refers to a harness carrying a wax block which serves the same purpose.

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.

a guiding arrangement of wires to separate the threads as they pass from the creel to the loom

A narrow, flat board with nails or pegs protruding at regular 1- or 2-inch (2.5- to 5-cm) intervals. It is used to distribute the warp evenly across the loom while the warp is being wound.

A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.

A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle hedge.

To work sticks into a hedge horizontally to strengthen it.

To interweave or twist together.

twist or braid together, interlace