rode

1. pastsimple past of ride
2. colloquialnonstandardparticiplepastpast participle of ride

   We dined at Martin's, and then came on to father Low's: we have rode but eight miles this day.

   1827 [1780], Francis Asbury, The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury […] , volume II

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   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[…]

   1662, John Baxter, A Saint Or a Brute […] , page 26

   I have rode with the Kings, man, and I have rode with the best! I know what the truth is, and the truth is that I count and you don't.

   2014 May 5, Eric Bogosian, 100 (monologues), Theatre Communications Group, →ISBN, page 100

present singular third person rodes · participle present roding · participle past roded · past roded

1. biologyOf 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."

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85

plural rodes

1. nauticalThe line from a vessel to its anchor.

   Synonyms: warp

plural rodes

1. obsoleteObsolete form of road.

   There dwelt a ſaluage nation, which did liue / Of ſtealth and ſpoile, and making nightly rode / Into their neighbours borders[…]

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 8, page 461

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   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.

   1544 October 23, Lord Evre, Letters

   And Achiſh said, Whither haue ye made a rode to day? And Dauid said, Againſt the South of Iudah, and againſt the South of the Ierahmeelites, and againſt the South of the Kenites.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 27:10, column 1

1. A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST8053).
2. A habitational name for a person who either lived near a woodland clearing, or came from a place named Rode.