rode

Meanings

1. simple past of ride
2. past participle of ride

1. Of a male woodcock, to fly back and forth over the edge of a woodland while calling; to perform its, typically crepuscular, mating flight.

1. The line from a vessel to its anchor.

1. Obsolete form of road.

1. A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST8053).
2. A habitational name for a person who either lived near a woodland clearing, or came from a place named Rode.

Etymology

In place names, from Old English *rodu (“clearing”).