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roding

roding noun: the mating display of the male woodcock, consisting of a patrolling flight around its territory. Also the present participle and gerund of rode.

Noun

roding (countable and uncountable, plural rodings)

  1. The mating display of the male woodcock, consisting of a patrolling flight around its territory.
  2. (countable) A small boat's anchor line.
    • Three boats found their rodings fouled by these reckless mid-sea hunters, and were towed half a mile ere their horses shook the line free.1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous

Proper noun capitalized: Roding

Roding

  1. A river in Essex and Greater London, England, which flows into Barking Creek before it reaches the Thames near Barking.

Also used as

roding is also the present participle and gerund of rode.

Forms of roding

pluralrodings

Origin of roding

The river's name is from Old English *Hrōþa (a personal name).

Phrases with roding

Questions about roding

What does roding mean?
Roding means the mating display of the male woodcock, consisting of a patrolling flight around its territory.
What part of speech is roding?
Roding can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of roding?
The plural of roding is rodings.

Words near roding in the dictionary

  1. Rodier
  2. Rodiers
  3. Rodina
  4. Rodinal
  5. Rodinesque
  6. roding
  7. rodingite
  8. rodingites
  9. rodingitisation
  10. rodingitised
  11. rodingitization

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