单词 | roddin |
释义 | roddinn. Scottish and Irish English (northern). A path or track, esp. one trodden by sheep; a rough road. Also figurative. Cf. rod n.2, sheep roddin n. at sheep n. Additions. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] streetOE wayOE gatec1175 roda1231 roddin1502 fare1509 highpad1567 pad1567 road1581 chimin1613 ribbon1923 1502 in J. Fullarton Rec. Burgh Prestwick (1834) 37 A dik in the commone roddin besid Nicholl Quhitis cors & the nowte roddyng. 1664 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) I. 82 Quhatsumevir persounis sall..mak rodding is or passadges for thameselffs except accustumet rodding is..to pay thrie punds money. 1757 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. 474/3 He saw some sticks cut and lying in the rudding. 1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms (1882) xxiii. 22/2 He weises me roun..intil right roddins. 1892 Ballymena Observer in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 164/1 Children will be told when anything like food is swallowed that it is down the rid rodden. 1924 Northern Whig (Belfast) 5 Jan. 9/5 Roddin, a rough road generally through a bog. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 278/2 Rodding, roddin, roddeen, roddy, a grass-grown lane, a narrow track; specifically (a) across a field; (b) leading to a peat-bog. 2005 I. Sansom Mobile Libr.: Case Missing Bks. xvi. 266 You'll be doing the last call yerself. It's up by the Devines' there—if I drop you off you can walk down the wee rodden when you're done, sure. Bring you out by the big red barn. 2016 D. C. Purdie in Lallans 88 19 Tae airt me til the roddin thare. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1502 |
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