ˈraddleman
[f. raddle n.2]
A digger of, or dealer in, raddle. † Applied allusively to Rutlandshire, and to a disease in wheat. Obs.
| 1622 Drayton Poly-olb. xxiii. 268 Little Rutlandshire is tearmed Raddleman. a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Rutland (1662) 347 Rutland Raddleman... Rad here is the same with red (onely more broadly pronounced)..Raddleman then is a Reddleman. 1798 Ann. Agric. XXVI. 177 Raddleman, ear-cockle, the disease in wheat due to Vibrio tritici. Sal. 1881 in Leicestersh. Gloss. |