# rode

Pronunciation: say "ROHD" US /ɹoʊd/, UK /ɹəʊd/

## Verb

1. Past tense of ride. — simple past of ride
   - Simple: Past tense of ride. Use it for the past.
   - _She rode the early train into the city for years._
   - _The messenger rode through the night to deliver the news._
2. Past participle of ride. Nonstandard and colloquial; the standard form is ridden. *(nonstandard)* — past participle of ride
   - Simple: Past participle of ride. Some speakers use this after "have" or "had," but "ridden" is the standard form.
   - _She had rode the same route to work for years before the line closed._
   - _They claimed they had rode farther than anyone else that season._
4. To perform a male woodcock's mating flight, usually at twilight, calling while flying along a woodland edge and back again.
   - Simple: Of a male woodcock, to fly back and forth over the edge of a wood at dusk while calling for a mate.
   - _On calm April evenings, male woodcock rode low over the forest edge, grunting and chirping._
   - _Birders gather at dusk to watch woodcock rode along the woodland margins._

## Noun

3. The line or chain running from a vessel to its anchor.
   - Simple: The rope or chain that joins a boat to its anchor.
   - _The crew paid out additional rode to improve the anchor's hold._
   - _Chafing wore through the rode where it passed over the bow roller._

## Noun

5. Obsolete form of road. *(obsolete)* — Obsolete form of road.
   - Simple: Obsolete form of road. This is an old way of spelling "road."

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