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Rode

//ɹəʊd// name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST8053).
  2. 2
    A habitational name for a person who either lived near a woodland clearing, or came from a place named Rode.
Noun
  1. 1
    The line from a vessel to its anchor.
  2. 2
    Obsolete form of road. alt-of, obsolete

    "Thomas Carlysle, &c. rode a Forrey to Dunglas, and there seased and brought away 80 Nolt, 200 Shepe, 22 Naggs. A Rode made to a Stede called the Hayrebed, and there they gate 30 Nolt, 3 or 4 Naggs."

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past of ride form-of, past
  2. 2
    Of a male woodcock, to fly back and forth over the edge of a woodland while calling; to perform its, typically crepuscular, mating flight.

    ""When the sun rises we shall have some splendid play. Only hear the woodcock, how he is roading; he expects fine weather.""

  3. 3
    past participle of ride colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past

    "No doubt many a journey you have rode and gone, and many a hard daies labour you have taken, and ſharpened perhaps with care and grief[…]"

Etymology

In place names, from Old English *rodu (“clearing”).

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