The act of spawning; to be on the roud: to spawn. Compare roudv. and rudn.3 1.
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1893 M. C. H. Bird in H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (Eastern Daily Press) 82 Although the rudd are here called roud, yet all Broadland fishes are said to be on the roud (not round) when spawning.