Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as ruddleman.

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  • noun Someone who deals in ruddle (red ochre)

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Examples

  • Can anyone visit Dorset and not in some sense feel that he, too, is one of Thomas Hardy’s natives returning on a Can you drive through that country and not look for Eustacia Vye and Diggory Venn, the ruddleman, and Michael Hen-chard, the Mayor of Casterbridge?

    TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995

  • Can anyone visit Dorset and not in some sense feel that he, too, is one of Thomas Hardy’s natives returning on a Can you drive through that country and not look for Eustacia Vye and Diggory Venn, the ruddleman, and Michael Hen-chard, the Mayor of Casterbridge?

    TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995

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