ruddle
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He rubbed the edge with ruddle, and, placing the millstaff on the stone, turned it about on its shorter axis: where the ruddle left its red mark more pecking would be required.
From Round About a Great Estate by Richard Jefferies
They revolted in 363-362, but were reduced again, and the Athenians established a monopoly of the ruddle, or red earth, which was one of the most valuable products of the island.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
Ducange, with the authorities quoted above, make its colour green; but the sinoper, or ruddle of commerce, is of a dark red or purplish hue.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
Lemnian earth, ruddle, and very many minerals do this, and yet they are fatuously said to attract.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
The distorted gibbous disk lifted itself above the edge—red as ruddle and enlarged by the refraction: a giant coppery moon, weird and magical.
From Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies
Even to-day those ruddled drawings can set a spell.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson
"I know you're a ruddled old hunks," said Mount, carelessly.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The slatternly bedchamber, with its red turkey twill window-curtains and cheap gaudy wallpaper, which had belonged to the ruddled woman with the bleached hair, was a palace to the little one.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
I am apt to believe, that they took the first hint of their dress from a fair sheep newly ruddled.
From Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The pock-marked rascal is lying quiet on the ruddled bricks at the foot of the stairs.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
Three hundred pistoles!" he echoed; "for ruddling the blades and risking the lives of nine of the finest swordsmen in Europe?
From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
