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simple past of ride examples
(now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of ride quotations
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 […]
1662, John Baxter, A Saint Or a Brute […] , page 26
We dined at Martin's, and then came on to father Low's: we have rode but eight miles this day.
1827 , Francis Asbury, The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury […] , volume II
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.
2014 May 5, Eric Bogosian, 100 (monologues), Theatre Communications Group, page 100
third-person singular simple present rodes, present participle roding, simple past and past participle roded
(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. quotations
"When the sun rises we shall have some splendid play. Only hear the woodcock, how he is roading; he expects fine weather."
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85
plural rodes
(nautical) The line from a vessel to its anchor. examples
Obsolete form of road. quotations examples
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.
1544 October 23, Lord Evre, Letters
There dwelt a ſaluage nation, which did liue / Of ſtealth and ſpoile, and making nightly rode / Into their neighbours borders […]
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, stanza 8, page 461
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.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1 Samuel 27:10, column 1