rode

Verb

rode

1. simple past of ride
2. (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of ride
   • 1662, John Baxter, A Saint Or a Brute […] ‎, page 26:

     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 […]

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

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

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

     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

rode (third-person singular simple present rodes, present participle roding, simple past and past participle roded)

1. (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.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85:

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

Noun

rode (plural rodes)

1. (nautical) The line from a vessel to its anchor.

Noun

rode (plural rodes)

1. Obsolete form of road.
   • 1544 October 23, Lord Evre, Letters:

     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.

   • 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:

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

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

     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.

Declension

Alternative forms

• rod, rood, roude, rud, rude

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroːd(ə)/
• Rhymes: -oːd

Noun

rode (plural rodes or roden)

1. A cross or gibbet
2. The cross on which Christ was crucified, and derived uses such as:
   1. A crucifix
   2. Christlike torment, suffering, or tribulation, as in "an oðer rode to berene" (another cross to bear)
3. A rod, pole, or bar
4. A quarter of an acre; a rood
5. In place names: a woodland clearing.

Alternative forms

• rade, rod, rood, roode

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔːd(ə)/

Noun

rode (plural rodes or roden)

1. ride, journey, voyage
2. harbour, roadstead

Alternative forms

• rodde, roode, rud, rudde

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrud(ə)/, /ˈroːd(ə)/

Noun

rode (plural rodes or roden)

1. ruddiness, redness
2. face, appearance, visage
3. Pot marigold, calendula (Calendula officinalis)

Alternative forms

• rad

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɔːd/

Noun

rode (plural rodes)

1. (rare) reckoning, judgement, account

Noun

rode (plural roddes)

1. Alternative form of rodde (“rod”)

Noun

rode (plural rodes)

1. reed, a reedy place

References

• Hanks, Patrick (2022) Dictionary of American Family Names, second edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, s.v. Rhode (no pagination)
• Hanks, Patrick (2022) Dictionary of American Family Names, second edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, s.v. Rudd (no pagination)

Noun

rode f (definite singular roda, indefinite plural roder, definite plural rodene)

1. (military) soldiers standing in a specific relation to each other in specific formations

Alternative forms

• roda (a and split infinitives)

Verb

rode (present tense rodar, past tense roda, past participle roda, passive infinitive rodast, present participle rodande, imperative rode/rod)

1. (intransitive) to shine reddish, to be red
2. (transitive) to make red
3. (by extension, archaic) to glaze baked goods (with raw egg yolk or milk or similar) before putting into oven