Definition of Reddled

1. Verb. (past of reddle) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reddled

1. reddle [v] - See also: reddle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reddled

reddingite
reddings
reddish
reddish-brown
reddish blue
reddish brown
reddish orange
reddish purple
reddishly
reddishness
reddishnesses
reddition
redditions
redditive
reddle
reddled (current term)
reddleman
reddlemen
reddles
reddling
reddour
redds
reddy
rede
redeal
redealing
redeals
redealt
redear
redears

Literary usage of Reddled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1857)
"Plough-Monday still obtains; the plough-witches or bullocks go their rounds with their faces reddled, one of the party dressed as a female, ..."

2. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"They sometimes complained of the acts of government, reddled the past glories of the missions, and pointed out the rum that secularization hod caused; ..."

3. British Popular Customs, Present and Past: Illustrating the Social and by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (1900)
"Tho pageant varies in different places; sometimes five persons precede the plough, which is drawn by a number of boys with their faces blackened and reddled ..."

4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1901)
"LEICESTER BUILDING, KENILWORTH CASTLE. distant wave, have in the late queen's reign, spread over the globe and reddled the most distant lands. ..."

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