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