roded

Verb

rode (third-person singular simple present rodes, present participle roding, simple past and past participle roded)

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.
   • "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 Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85

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