▪ I. buddle, boodle, n.1
(ˈbʌd(ə)l, ˈbuːd(ə)l)
Forms: 4 budel, 5 boþul(e, bothil, 6 bodle, boddle, 8– buddle, 9 boodle.
[Etymology unknown: the conjecture that it is a. Du. buidel purse, on account of its bearing golds (yellow flowers) is untenable.]
A rural name for the Corn-marigold.
| a 1400 Names of Herbs in MS. Sloane 5 f. 6 Monica, budel. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 46 Boþul [printed Boyul] or bothule, herbe, or cow-slope [v.r. bothil, boyl]. 1580 Tusser Husb. li. 11 Like vnto boddle no weede there is such. 1787 Marshall E. Norfolk Gloss. (E.D.S.) Buddle, corn-marigold. 1830 Forby Voc. E. Anglia I. 42 Buddle, a noxious weed among corn, Chrysanthemum segetum. |
▪ II. buddle, n.2 Mining.
(ˈbʌd(ə)l)
Also 6 buddel, 7 budle.
[Etymology unknown: some have compared Ger. butteln to shake, agitate. The word occurs in Manlove 1653 as a term used by Derbyshire lead-miners; it is still current there and in Cornwall, and also in the U.S. silver mines.]
A shallow inclined vat in which ore is washed.
| 1531–2 Act 23 Hen. VIII, viii. §1 The saide digger, owner, or wassher, shall make..sufficient hatches and ties in the ende of their buddels and cordes. 1653 E. Manlove Rhymed Chron. 260 Main Rakes, Cross Rakes, Brown-henns, Budles and Soughs. 1674 Ray Smelt. Silver 116 The Buddle which is a vessel made like to a shallow tumbrel, standing a little shelving. 1869 Church in Student II. 402 The buddles where the ground ore is washed. 1881 Raymond Mining Gloss., Buddle (Cornwall), an inclined vat or stationary or revolving platform upon which ore is concentrated by means of running water. Strictly the buddle is a shallow vat..But general usage, particularly on the Pacific slope, makes no distinction. |
Comb., as buddle-boy, buddle-head, buddle-tub.
| 1860 Smiles Self-help iii. 62 Earning three-halfpence a day as a buddleboy at a tin mine. 1671 Phil. Trans. VI. 2109 A Trambling shovel..to cast up the Ore..on a long square board..which is termed the Buddle-head. 1811 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 54/1 Miner's buddle-tubs..and other materials. |
▪ III. † ˈbuddle, v.1 Obs. rare.
[? f. bud v.1 + -le frequentative suffix; but perh. rather onomatopœic.]
intr. ? To bud, to sprout.
| 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 268 b, More wickednes hath bene sene to buddle upp afresh [Lat. pullulare]. Ibid. 430 b, Sinnes do dayly boyle upp and buddle from without us. |
▪ IV. buddle, v.2 Mining.
(ˈbʌd(ə)l)
[f. buddle n.2]
trans. To wash (ore) by means of a buddle. Hence ˈbuddled ppl. a.; ˈbuddler; ˈbuddling vbl. n.
| 1693 G. Pooley in Phil. Trans. XVII. 675 The places where they wash, clean or buddle it, as their Term is. 1747 Hooson Miner's Dict. s.v., In some places, they Buddle all their Boose. Ibid. I j b, The Budlers, Scrapers, and Washers. Ibid. X iv, Waste [is] that which is separated by the Water from the Buddled Ore, by Buddling the Boose. 1869 Church in Student II. 402 It [ore] is separated from the accompanying rock and minerals by the process locally [Cornwall] termed buddling. |
▪ V. buddle
obs. f. boodle1.