Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ruddock

Ruddock , noun

[Anglo-Saxon ruddic; compare Welsh rhuddog the redbreast. r113. See Rud, n.]

1.
(Zoology) The European robin.
The tame ruddock and the coward kite. — Chaucer
2.
A piece of gold money; -- probably because the gold of coins was often reddened by copper alloy. Called also red ruddock, and golden ruddock. [Obsolete]
Great pieces of gold... red ruddocks. — Florio