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▪ I. † rode, n.1 Obs. rare.
[Prob. a. Du. roede measuring-rod (ten feet long): see rood n.]
A certain length of dyke.
1662Dugdale Imbanking & Draining 242 That the sewer..should be dyked..before Michaelmasse following, upon pain of every rode not done 3s. 4d. Ibid., Upon pain also of iijs. iiijd. for every rode unfinished at Michaelmasse.
▪ II. rode, n.2 N. Amer.|rəʊd|
Also 7–8 road(e, 9 rhode.
[Of obscure origin.]
A rope, esp. one attached to a boat-anchor or trawl. (Cf. roding.)
1679Boston Rec. (1881) VII. 135 A roade taken out of his Boate in the time of ye fire, & made vse of to pull downe houses. 1726Penhallow Indian Wars (1859) 53 They fired..with such resolution, as made them quit one of their boats by cutting their roads and lashings. 1792G. Cartwright Jrnl. I. p. xiii, Rode, a small tow⁓line, of four inches and an half; made use of by shallops, by way of a cable. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 12 Manilla Trawl Rhode, large yarn. a1890Cent. Dict., Rode,..a rope attached to a boat-anchor or killock. Perley. [Bay of Fundy.] 1950R. Moore Candlemas Bay i. 45 His anchor and rode were stowed down under the stern. 1963J. T. Rowland North to Adventure x. 147 With both hooks down and a long scope of rode she should be able to ride out anything.
▪ III. rode, n.3 dial.
(See quot. and rode v.2)
1838Holloway Prov. Dict. s.v., ‘To go to Rode,’ means to go late at night, or early in the morning, to shoot wild fowl, which pass over-head on the wing.
▪ IV. rode, v.1
Also 7 road.
[Prob. ad. older Du. roden, roeden (Kilian), = LG. roden, raden (see Grimm), OFris. rotha to root out, extirpate.]
trans. To clear (a stream, dyke, etc.) from weeds. Hence ˈroding vbl. n.1
1616in W. H. Wheeler Hist. Fens (1897) App. iv. 11 The Welland to be roaded, rooked, hooked, haffed, scowered and cleansed. 1662Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Draining 242 The sewer called the Beche..should be dyked, roded, and scoured. 1664–5Act 16–17 Chas. II, c. 11 §2 [They] shall..maintaine and keepe the Rivers of Gleane and Welland with sufficient Dyking, Roading, Scowering and Bancking. 1858W. H. Wheeler Drainage Fens & Low Lands 17 The cost of this work in the fen district, where it is termed ‘roding’, is about 20s. a mile. [Descr. precedes.]
▪ V. rode, v.2
Also 8 rod, 9 road.
[Of obscure origin. Sense 2 is evidently related in some way to cock-rode, -road.]
1. intr. Of wild-fowl: To fly landward in the evening.
1768Pennant Brit. Zool. II. 464 As soon as the evening sets in, the decoy rises (as they term it)... This rising of the decoy in the evening, is in Somersetshire called rodding. 1885N. & Q. 6th Ser. XI. 188 Gunners..wait in the marshes in the Bristol Channel, in the evening, to shoot wild fowl ‘roding in’ half an hour after sunset.
2. Of woodcock: To perform a regular evening flight during the breeding season.
1865J. Sleigh Derbyshire Gloss. (E.D.D.). 1907Bensusan Wild-Life Stories 208 When a woodcock is roding, he must not vary his pace, his flight, or his song.
Hence ˈroding vbl. n.2 (freq. attrib.) and ppl. a.
1888,1898[see roading vbl. n.2]. 1927E. Sandars Bird Bk. for Pocket 156 Cock's nuptial display (‘Roding’),..plumage fluffed out and uttering call. 1955Times 10 May 12/5 These two sounds, so useful as an aid to seeing woodcock, are constantly uttered during its ‘roding’ flights, which start at sunset, are continued for perhaps an hour, and are resumed at dawn. 1973Ibis CXV. 135 Many workers have described the roding behaviour of the Woodcock and speculated on its biological meaning.
▪ VI. rode
obs. f. reed, road, roid a., rood, rud, rude; pa. tense or pa. pple. of ride v. |