Road vs Woad - What's the difference?
road | woad |
(obsolete) The act of riding on horseback.
(obsolete) A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:
(nautical, often, in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor.
* 1630 , , True Travels , in Kupperman 1988, p. 38:
A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions.
* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266
, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road .}}
* , chapter=1
, title= (figuratively) A path chosen in life or career.
* Ronald Reagan: A Time for Choosing (1964).
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, tiutle= An underground tunnel in a mine.
(US) A railway; (British) a single railway track.
(obsolete) A journey, or stage of a journey.
* Shakespeare
The plant .
* 1840 , Francis S. Wiggins, The American Farmer's Instructor, Or Practical Agriculturist ,
* 1997 , Joan Thirsk, Alternative Agriculture: A History ,
* 1998 , Daniel C. Beaver, Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590-1690 ,
The blue dye made from the leaves of the plant.
* 1814 , , The History of Great Britain Volume XII, 5th Edition,
* 1856 , Albrecht Daniel Thaer, The Principles of Practical Agriculture ,
* 1983 , E. B. Fryde, Studies in Medieval Trade and Finance ,
* 2007 , Richard L. Myers, The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds: A Reference Guide ,
To plant or cultivate woad.
* 1771 , Arthur Young, The Farmer's Tour through the East of England ,
* 1968 , Eric Kerridge, The Agricultural Revolution ,
* 1812 , Edmund Burke, The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1811 ,
To dye with woad.
* 1777 , George Clark, The Penal Statutes Abridged, and Alphabetically Arranged ,
* 1793 , Charles Viner, A General Abridgment of Law and Equity , Volume 14,
* 1809 , Charles Henry Hunt, A Practical Treatise on the Merino and Anglo-Merino Breeds of Sheep ,
As nouns the difference between road and woad
is that road is the act of riding on horseback while woad is the plant species: Isatis tinctoria.As a verb woad is
to plant or cultivate woad.road
English
(wikipedia road)Noun
(en noun)- There dwelt a salvage nation, which did live / Of stealth and spoile, and making nightly rode / Into their neighbours borders […].
- There delivering their fraught, they went to Scandaroone; rather to view what ships was in the Roade , than any thing else [...].
citation
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.}}
- Where, then, is the road to peace?
Moldova 0-5 England, passage=Hodgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.}}
- With easy roads he came to Leicester.
Usage notes
Often used interchangeably with street or other similar words. When usage is distinguished, a road is a route between settlements (reflecting the etymological relation with ride), as in the from London to Edinburgh, while a street is a route within a settlement (city or town), strictly speaking paved.Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* A road, A-road * access road * all roads lead to Rome * B road * back road * bump in the road * burn up the road * byroad * C road * corduroy road * crossroad * down the road * end of the road * fork in the road * frontage road * Great North road * highroad/high road * hit the road * ice road * low road * main road * middle of the road/middle-of-the-road * nonroad * offroad/off-road * on the road * one for the road * pay-per-use road * Persian Royal Road * railroad * ring road * road allowance * road apple * road case * road export * road fund licence * road gang * road hockey * road hog/road-hog * road map * road movie * road race * road rage * road rash * road sign * road to Damascus * road train * road trip * road warrior * roadability * roadbase * roadbed * roadblock * roader * roadhouse * roadie * roadkill * roadless * roadness * roadroller * roadrunner * roadshow * roadside * roadstead * roadster * roadway * roadwork * roadworks * roadworthy * rocky road * service road * slip road/sliproad * take the high road * Tobacco Road * trunk road * where the rubber meets the road * winter road * yellow brick road/Yellow Brick RoadStatistics
*Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----woad
English
Noun
(en-noun)page 185,
- Woad is one of those plants which yield the deep blue colouring matter so greatly valued in the arts — Indigo .
page 80,
- Woad was then placed on the regular shopping list of alternative crops.
page 32,
- The cultivation of woad had taken hold in southern England during the early 1580s, but this dispute provides the earliest evidence of its cultivation in the fields around Tewkesbury.
page 309,
- To prevent this, it was enacted, that no wines of Ga?cony and Guienne, or woads' of Tholou?e, should be imported into England, except in ships belonging to the King, or some of his ?ubjects; and that all ?uch wines and ' woads imported in foreign bottoms ?hould be forfeited.
page 462,
- But in the middle of the sixteenth century indigo was introduced from the East Indies: and in the seventeenth century its use became extended, and supplanted that of woad .
page 360,
- Huge quanitities of alum and woad were disembarked each year at Southampton.
page 152,
- For example, woad , a blue dye obtained from the plant Isatis tinctoria , was used throughout the Mediterannean and Europe and is often identified as indigo.
Synonyms
* (the plant) glastum, Isatis tinctoria * (the blue dye) indigo, indigotinVerb
(en verb)page 59,
- Now as the tenants after woading , pay the ?ame rent as before, one cannot wonder at landlords making use of such an easy method to raise money: but it is the tenants that quarrel most at it; they assert the land to be 7 (s). an acre the worse for it; here then lies the enquiry.
page 209,
- Such land was usually woaded for two, three or four years and then corned,.
page 517,
- He planted woad on it, and engaged a person from the north to manage it; and the produce was so abundant as to afford immense profit. I believe he only woaded two years, and then let it.
page 111,
- All woollen goods truly mathered, ?hall be marked with a red ro?e, and a blue ro?e, and all ?uch truly woaded throughout, with a blue ro?e only; and if any per?on shall affix any ?uch mark falsely, he ?hall forfeit, for every piece ?o marked 4l. (?ee under).
page 409,
- Again?t a dyer for woading''' his cloth only to the third ?tall (whereas the custom of dyers was to '''woad''' it to the fourth ?tall) and then marking it'' with the company's seal ''as if it had been woaded to the fourth ?tall''; he was found guilty of ' woading it only to the third ?tall, and not of ?etting ?uch mark to it, for which rea?on the court was of opinion no judgement ought to be again?t the defendant.
page 64,
- This wool, when scowered, weighed 50 lbs.; when woaded blue, and picked, 48 lbs.