Subject: Hmph

From: "David Randall" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:45:19 -0500

raddle -- (n.)  (UK agr.)  Red ochre used to dye living sheep.
By:  Daniel Pool, _What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew_
(see also the results of any Web search on "raddle sheep" for
practical hints)

David:  "Reddle."  [Also "ruddle" -- em]

In Thomas Hardy, I forget which novel, I'm pretty sure it's reddle.  Darn
it, I know my Wessex dialect!  Hmph.

David