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rode

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rode

  1. simple past of ride
  2. (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of ride
    • 1662, John Baxter, A Saint Or a Brute […] ‎[1], page 26:
      No doubt many a journey you have rode and gone, and many a hard daies labour you have taken, and ſharpened perhaps with care and grief […]
    • 1827 [1780], Francis Asbury, The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury […] ‎[2], volume II:
      We dined at Martin's, and then came on to father Low's: we have rode but eight miles this day.
    • 2014 May 5, Eric Bogosian, 100 (monologues)‎[3], Theatre Communications Group, →ISBN, page 100:
      I have rode with the Kings, man, and I have rode with the best! I know what the truth is, and the truth is that I count and you don't.

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rode (third-person singular simple present rodes, present participle roding, simple past and past participle roded)

  1. (ornithology) Of a male woodcock, to fly back and forth over the edge of a woodland while calling; to perform its, typically crepuscular, mating flight.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85:
      "When the sun rises we shall have some splendid play. Only hear the woodcock, how he is roading; he expects fine weather."

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rode (plural rodes)

  1. (nautical) The line from a vessel to its anchor.
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rode (plural rodes)

  1. Obsolete form of road.
    • 1544 October 23, Lord Evre, Letters:
      Thomas Carlysle, &c. rode a Forrey to Dunglas, and there seased and brought away 80 Nolt, 200 Shepe, 22 Naggs. A Rode made to a Stede called the Hayrebed, and there they gate 30 Nolt, 3 or 4 Naggs.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 8, page 461:
      There dwelt a ſaluage nation, which did liue / Of ſtealth and ſpoile, and making nightly rode / Into their neighbours borders […]
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 27:10, column 1:
      And Achiſh said, Whither haue ye made a rode to day? And Dauid said, Againſt the South of Iudah, and againſt the South of the Ierahmeelites, and againſt the South of the Kenites.

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rode (third-person singular simple present rodt, past participle grodt, auxiliary haa)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to move, stir
    • 1908, Meinrad Lienert, ’s Heiwili, I.5:
      Äs stoht im Stubli, rod't si nüd.

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rode

  1. vocative singular of rod

Danish

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  • IPA(key): /roːdə/, [ˈʁoːðə]

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rode c (singular definite roden, plural indefinite roder)

  1. (military) file
  2. tax collector's district

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Declension of rode
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rode roden roder roderne
genitive rodes rodens roders rodernes

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rode (imperative rod, infinitive at rode, present tense roder, past tense rodede, perfect tense har rodet)

  1. to mess up (make a physical mess of)
  2. to rummage, to root

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rode

  1. inflection of rood:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

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rode

  1. inflection of roder:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Galician

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rode

  1. inflection of rodar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

German

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rode

  1. inflection of roden:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

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rode

  1. to guess

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Italian

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rode

  1. third-person singular present indicative of rodere

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rōde

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of rōdō

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English rōd, from Proto-West Germanic *rōdu, from Proto-Germanic *rōdō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

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rode (plural rodes or roden)

  1. A cross or gibbet
  2. The cross on which Christ was crucified, and derived uses such as:
    1. A crucifix
    2. Christlike torment, suffering, or tribulation, as in "an oðer rode to berene" (another cross to bear)
  3. A rod, pole, or bar
  4. A quarter of an acre; a rood
  5. In place names: a woodland clearing.
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  • English: rood
  • Scots: rude, ruid
  • English: Rhode, Rhodes
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Etymology 2

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From Old English rād, from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

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rode (plural rodes or roden)

  1. ride, journey, voyage
  2. harbour, roadstead
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Etymology 3

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From Old English rudu.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈrud(ə)/, /ˈroːd(ə)/

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rode (plural rodes or roden)

  1. ruddiness, redness
  2. face, appearance, visage
  3. Pot marigold, calendula (Calendula officinalis)
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Etymology 4

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From Old English ġerād, rād.

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rode (plural rodes)

  1. (rare) reckoning, judgement, account
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rode (plural roddes)

  1. Alternative form of rodde (“rod”)

Etymology 6

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From Old English hreod.

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rode (plural rodes)

  1. reed, a reedy place
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From Old Norse roti m, from Middle Low German.

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rode f (definite singular roda, indefinite plural roder, definite plural rodene)

  1. (military) soldiers standing in a specific relation to each other in specific formations

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From Old Norse roða.

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  • roda (a and split infinitives)

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rode (present tense rodar, past tense roda, past participle roda, passive infinitive rodast, present participle rodande, imperative rode/rod)

  1. (intransitive) to shine reddish, to be red
  2. (transitive) to make red
  3. (by extension, archaic) to glaze baked goods (with raw egg yolk or milk or similar) before putting into oven

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Compare German raten, Dutch raden, English read.

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rode

  1. to advise, to counsel
  2. to guess

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rode

  1. to guess
  2. to advise, to suggest

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rode

  1. inflection of rodar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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rode (Cyrillic spelling роде)

  1. vocative singular of rod

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rode (Cyrillic spelling роде)

  1. inflection of roda:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

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rode (Cyrillic spelling роде)

  1. third-person plural present of roditi

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rode

  1. plural of roda
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