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Ruddle; red ocher.

sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.

To dye or tinge with scarlet. [R.] The ashy paleness of my cheek Is scarleted in ruddy flakes of wrath. Ford.

Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect. Burns. A ruddy storm, whose scowl Made heaven's radiant face look foul. Crashaw.

the seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks. The scoters, eiders, old squaw, and ruddy duck are examples. They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe.

In a Whitehead torpedo, a compressed-air motor, for moving the rudders so as to correct deviations from the course.

The rudd. [Prov. Eng.]

twater; 107 Starboard Bow; 108 Starboard Beam; 109 Water Line; 110 Starboard Quarter; 111 Rudder.

A plank fixed beneath an object, as beneath the rudder of a vessel, to protect it from injury; a plank on the ground under the end of a shore or the like.

The after part of the keel of a vessel, to which the rudder is attached.

haracterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security. Sleepy duck (Zoöl.), the ruddy duck.

The ruddy duck.

The ruddy duck. [Local, U.S.]

The ruddy duck. See under Ruddy.

The ruddy duck.

A rudder or helm. [Obs.] Chaucer.

from Steer, v. Steering wheel (Naut.), the wheel by means of which the rudder of a vessel is turned and the vessel is steered.

Having no rudder. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A rudder. See 5th Steer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder. [Obs.] Chaucer.