LekhoriLekhorisimple past of ride
past participle of ride
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[…]
Of a male woodcock, to fly back and forth over the edge of a woodland while calling; to perform its, typically crepuscular, mating flight.
"When the sun rises we shall have some splendid play. Only hear the woodcock, how he is roading; he expects fine weather."
A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST8053).
A habitational name for a person who either lived near a woodland clearing, or came from a place named Rode.
In place names, from Old English *rodu (“clearing”).
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Obsolete form of road.
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.