ruddle
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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
Page 22, line 20. rubrica fabrili: in English ruddle or reddle.
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
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
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
"I know you're a ruddled old hunks," said Mount, carelessly.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
"Darn the ruddled vixens who come a-drabbing into my mews, with a hussy tew hail you afoot and a baggage tew boot on the boot—" "Keep quiet!"
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
His appearance much resembled that of the inhabitants of New South Wales; he had also marks raised upon the skin, and his face was blackened and hair ruddled as is sometimes practised by them.
From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 by Matthew Flinders
Even to-day those ruddled drawings can set a spell.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson
She sat now with bowed back by the empty fireplace, and looked across at Nigel with all the harsh lines of her old ruddled face softening into love and pride.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
