Another Raddle

Judith E. Schrier PRIMATE at BROWNVM.brown.edu
Fri Mar 30 09:54:10 EST 2001


On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:35:06 -0500 you said:
>Dear All, I am still learning the "rules" of the game, so I was a little miffed
>when nobody believed my real def of "raddle"  to be a weaving term, as I
>expressed in comments to Elliott.  I just realized, with the help of Judith and
>Fran, that you demand sources.

Consider Merriam-Webster's 9th New Collegiate Dictionary, page 970.
Bottom of the left-hand column.  Definition 3 of "raddle"
"[E dial. raddle (supple stick interwoven with others as in making
a fence)] (1671): to twist together : INTERWEAVE.

love, judith



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