reddle

Apparently a variation of ruddle, though not certainly.

reddle (countable and uncountable, plural reddles)

Red ochre, historically used to mark sheep
- 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 87:
  All that reddlemen do is sell reddle. You see those bags at the back of my cart? They are […] only full of red stuff.

reddle (third-person singular simple present reddles, present participle reddling, simple past and past participle reddled)

To redden.
- 1983, Samuel R. Delany, Neveryóna::
  Reddled and waxed, the room's stone floor was set perhaps two feet below the outside ground.

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