rode

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of ridesimple past of ride

2. 2

   Also a form of ridepast participle of ride

   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.

verb

1. 1

   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."

noun

1. 1

   The line from a vessel to its anchor.

noun

1. 1

   Variant of roadobsoleteObsolete form of road.

   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.

Forms

plural

rodes

past tense

roded

past participle

roded

present participle

roding

third person singular

rodes