Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RAD'DLE, n. [supra.]

A long stick used in hedging; also, a hedge formed by interweaving the shoots and branches of trees or shrubs. – Todd. In New England, an instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, which is employed by domestic weavers, to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent it from becoming entangled, when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.