Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ruddle

Ruddle , transitive verb

To raddle or twist. [Obsolete]

Ruddle , noun

A riddle or sieve. [Obsolete] — Holland

Ruddle , noun

[See Rud; compare Reddle.]

(Mineralogy) A species of red earth colored by iron sesquioxide; red ocher.

Ruddle , transitive verb

To mark with ruddle; to raddle; to rouge.
Their ruddled cheeks. — Thackeray
A fair sheep newly ruddled. — Lady M. W. Montagu