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▪ I. ˈraddling, n. dial.
Also 7, 9 radling.
[f. raddle n.1 + -ing1.]
1. A raddle, rod, twig, etc.
1616Salford Portmote Rec. (1902) 121 Any sprinkelings radlings or any other woode. 1626Manchester Court Leet Rec. (1886) III. 114 John Wright..got Radlings in the grounds of Elizabeth Mosley. 1736Pegge Kenticisms (E.D.S.), Raddles{ddd}in some countries called raddlings. a1796― Derbicisms, Radlings, long slender poles for binding hedges. 1841S. Bamford Life of Radical I. xxi. 137 A timber frame, filled with raddlings and daub (wicker work, plastered with clay).
2. (See quots.)
1674Ray N.C. Words 38 Radlings; Windings of the wall. 1736Neve Builders' Dict. (ed. 3), Raddlings, in Architecture, the Bowings-in, or copeings of Walls. 1824Craven Dialect, Raddling, Rabbling, the winding or crookedness of a wall.
▪ II. raddling, vbl. n.|ˈrædlɪŋ|
[f. raddle v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of marking sheep with raddle, or some other red substance.
c1873J. Albery Fortune iii, in Dramatic Wks. (1939) I. 574 Mark 'em [sc. sheep] all with two red letters, Johnny; they always do that;—raddling they call it, I think. |