roddingn.1
/ˈrɒdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrɑdɪŋ/, Scottish English /ˈrɔdɪŋ/, /ˈrɔdɪn/ Scottish. rare.† 1. The spawning of fish. Obsolete.
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1496 in J. S. Clouston Rec. Earldom of Orkney (1914) 74 Alleging that the forsaid mill stopit the passing up and down of all fisch in the tyme of the roding.
1795 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XV. 321 It is said that the raising of the Damhead..is the sole cause why the fish come not up in rodding time to the Glazert.
2. In plural. Frogspawn.
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1977 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. II. 99 Frogs' eggs or spawn, [Dunbarton] puddock rodens.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
roddingn.2
/ˈrɒdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrɑdɪŋ/ 1. The action or practice of beating with a rod as a punishment; caning. Also: an instance of this. rare.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating with stick, rod, or cane
bastinado1572
wanding1585
oil of hazel1604
rodding1616
rib-basting1659
birching1838
tunding1866
1616 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World iv. 309 Their capitall punishments are hanging, rodding, knoking on the heads, drowning.
1862 M. Reid Boy Tar xxix. 172 I remembered well the table of liquid measure... I had received many a smart rodding, before I was able to repeat it over.
1906 H. S. Salt Consolat. Faddist 30 The less they did attend, The more he brayed of rodding.
2. Rods (esp. metal rods) collectively; an arrangement of rods.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > metal in the form of rods
rodding1833
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > grape-vine > parts of
railinga1382
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palmita1398
vine-branchc1400
vine-leafc1420
portoir1601
vine dragon1601
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vine-water1736
rodding1833
rod1846
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > metal in the form of rods > arrangement of
rodding2000
1833 Hort. Reg. Feb. 56 By this method a double crop can be obtained, each vine containing 24 or 25 feet of rodding.
1848 Sharpe's London Mag. June 247/2 An armature of powerful iron cogs..set in motion a pair of smaller wheels, furnished with powerful cranks connected with the rodding.
1899 Daily News 1 July 4/5 Electro pneumatic signalling does away with rodding and wires.
1917 Pop. Mech. Sept. 448/2 Only a few of the manufacturers of lightning-rod material now recommend and furnish insulators for the rodding.
1978 G. M. Kichenside & A. Williams Brit. Railway Signalling (ed. 4) iv. 35 The bolt is connected via rodding to a locking lever in the signalbox.
2000 V. Curcio Chrysler (2001) ii. xvi. 201 Brittle concrete beams were given enormous added strength by pouring this material around a basketwork of steel rodding.
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1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Rodding, the operation of fixing or repairing wooden cage guides in shafts.
4. The action or process of pushing a rod or rods through a duct, drain, or pipe, esp. in order to clear it. Cf. rod v. 4.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > [noun] > clearing drain or sewer
flushing1859
flush1883
rodding1890
1890 Cent. Dict. at Rod The cable is inserted by a process technically called rodding—that is, pushing rods through the duct from one manhole to the next.
1922 Rep. N.Y. Transit Comm. 121 The work done consisted of the rodding of ducts,..removal of gas by-pass pipes and restoration of gas mains.
1953 L. B. Escritt Building Sanitation (ed. 3) viii. 94 A light manhole cover is provided in a central position to facilitate rodding.
1996 J. Torrington Care Homes for Older People i. 11 Good access for rodding.
5. Geology. A linear structure in metamorphic rocks characterized by the arrangement of grains of a constituent mineral, esp. quartz, in parallel rods. Also rodding structure.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > texture or colour > [noun] > texture > linear structure
rodding1897
lineation1938
1897 W. Gunn et al. Geol. Cowal ii. 17 In general, the veins run roughly with the foliation, and show on their sides prominent ‘stretching’ or ‘rodding’ structure, the quartz and felspar running in rod forms in a definite direction.
1897 W. Gunn et al. Geol. Cowal iv. 49 The rock may have been folded before the force which produced the rodding commenced to act.
1923 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 79 439 In the hornblende-schists there is actual rodding or elongation of the crystals.
1970 K. C. Jackson Textbk. Lithol. vii. 426 Associated with the larger-scale folding may be the segregation of more mobile constituents such as quartz, resulting in a small~scale rodding structure.
2006 P. H. G. M. Dirks & H. A. Jelsma in W. U. Reimold & R. L. Gibson Processes on Early Earth 305/1 L1 is a mineral or stretching lineation defined by..quartz and feldspar rodding, elongated leucosome pockets, and pegmatite veins.
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attributive. Plumbing. Designating an opening or passage allowing access to a pipe, drain, etc., for the purpose of rodding. Cf. sense 4.
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1908 Munic. Engin. May 273/2 The cause of this result was found in the stopper of the rodding arm of chamber C being missing.
1945 W. J. Woolgar Pract. Plumber 313/1 Rodding eyes are useful at changes of direction and at the top end of a long branch drain.
1986 Anatolian Stud. 36 50 Where the holes in clay pipelines are more widely spaced they could serve as rodding holes, for poking clear blockages.
2004 P. Hymers New Home Builder vi. 116 If bends have to be employed,..place them as close to inspection chambers and rodding points as you can.
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