raddle

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In ordinary weaving there are two heddles, each fastened to a foot-treadle There is a removable loom attachment which when first shown to me was called a raddle.

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  1. transitive verb To twist together; interweave.
  2. noun Variant of ruddle.

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  1. From dialectal raddle, stick interwoven with others in a fence, from Anglo-Norman reidele, stout pole, possibly from Middle High German reidel, rod; see reidh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English radel, redle; also (in verb) ruddle; perhaps a transposed form of hurdle; or formed from wreathe or writhe (cf. writhle, v.) and confused with hurdle, or with riddle (Middle English redel, etc.), a curtain.
  2. Formerly also redle, ruddle; from raddle, n.
  3. Var. of reddle, ruddle.
  4. from raddle, n.
 

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/ˈrædl/
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