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rode the three-legged mare

rode the three-legged mare is the simple past of ride the three-legged mare.

Meaning of ride the three-legged mare

Verb

ride the three-legged mare (third-person singular simple present rides the three-legged mare, present participle riding the three-legged mare, simple past rode the three-legged mare, past participle ridden the three-legged mare)

  1. (UK, euphemistic, historical, slang) To be executed by hanging.

Questions about rode the three-legged mare

What is rode the three-legged mare the simple past of?
Rode the three-legged mare is the simple past of ride the three-legged mare.

Words near rode the three-legged mare in the dictionary

  1. rode the pine
  2. rode the rail
  3. rode the rails
  4. rode the rods
  5. rode the short bus
  6. rode the three-legged mare
  7. rode the tiger
  8. rode the wave
  9. rode to hounds
  10. rode up
  11. rode up on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rode the three-legged mare (page history and authors); ride the three-legged mare (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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