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单词 rodham
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rodhamn.

Forms: 1800s roddam, 1800s rodham.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rod n.1, ham n.2
Etymology: < rod n.1 (with reference to the use of osiers as a source of rods for basketwork, etc.) + ham n.2
English regional. Obsolete. rare.
A piece of meadowland beside a river (spec. the River Thames) on which osiers grow.
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1882 H. W. Taunt Shilling Map & Guide Thames (new ed.) 9/1 From here a quarter of a mile of crooked stream, bordered with rodhams, brings us to Shillingford Bridge.
1891 Longman's Mag. Apr. 602 The river here forms a horseshoe... The whole of the space included in the horseshoe is filled by a large osier-bed—a roddam, as it is called on the Thames.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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