Rode

/ɹəʊd/ · verb

Meaning

simple past of ride.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past of ride
2. (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of ride
3. (ornithology) Of a male woodcock, to fly back and forth over the edge of a woodland while calling; to perform its, typically crepuscular, mating flight.
4. (nautical) The line from a vessel to its anchor.
5. Obsolete form of road.

Example Sentences

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[…]

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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Word Forms

• rodes
• roding
• roded

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