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Rode vs Wode - What's the difference?

rode | wode |

As a proper noun rode

is (the oldest oceanid).

As an adjective wode is

(archaic) mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.

As a noun wode is

.

rode

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical) The line from the vessel to its anchor. Also warp.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (ride)

    • Anagrams

    * English irregular simple past forms ----

    wode

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * wood

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) Mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
  • * a''. 1588 , (Jasper Heywood), quoted in James Petite Andews, ''The History of Great Britain , published 1806
    • My hair stode up, I waxed wode , my synewes all did shake / And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake.

    Etymology 2

    See woad

    Noun

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