rode

verb

1. (form-of, past)simple past of ride
2. (colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past)past 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.”

3. 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. The line from a vessel to its anchor.
2. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete 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.”

name

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.