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語源 1

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

名詞

ruddle (countable and uncountable, plural ruddles)

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

同意語

• raddle
• reddle

派生語

• Lemnian ruddle
• ruddleman

動詞

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.

   Synonyms: interlace, interweave, raddle; see also Thesaurus:intertwine

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “ruddle”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

語源 2

名詞

ruddle (plural ruddles)

1. A riddle or 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.

動詞

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.