roding

plural rodings

1. countableuncountablebiologyThe mating display of the male woodcock, consisting of a patrolling flight around its territory.
2. countablenauticalA small boat's anchor line.

   Three boats found their rodings fouled by these reckless mid-sea hunters, and were towed half a mile ere their horses shook the line free.

   1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of rode

1. A river in Essex and Greater London, England, which flows into Barking Creek before it reaches the Thames near Barking.