We dined at Martin's, and then came on to father Low's: we have rode but eight miles this day. 1827 [1780], Francis Asbury, The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury […] , volume II:
I have rode with the Kings, man, and I have rode with the best! I know what the truth is, and the truth is that I count and you don't. 2014 May 5, Eric Bogosian, 100 (monologues), Theatre Communications Group, →ISBN, page 100:
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[…] 1662, John Baxter, A Saint Or a Brute […] , page 26:
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 Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85:
is reið (The line from the vessel to its anchor) · no red (The line from the vessel to its anchor) · nl reden (The line from the vessel to its anchor) · fi ankkuriköysi (The line from the vessel to its anchor) · fi ankkurikettinki (The line from the vessel to its anchor) · nl reed (The line from the vessel to its anchor)
And Achiſh said, Whither haue ye made a rode to day? And Dauid said, Againſt the South of Iudah, and againſt the South of the Ierahmeelites, and againſt the South of the Kenites. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 27:10, column 1:
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. 1544 October 23, Lord Evre, Letters:
There dwelt a ſaluage nation, which did liue / Of ſtealth and ſpoile, and making nightly rode / Into their neighbours borders[…] 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 8, page 461: