roding

This "roding" is a curious performance on the part of the males only, and it bears some analogy to the "drumming" of snipe.

Birds in the Calendar 1894

Fortunately, we do not in England shoot the bird in springtime, the season of "roding," but the practice is in vogue in the evening twilight in every

Birds in the Calendar 1894

In those times the bird was taken on the ground in springes or, when "roding" in the mating season, in nets, known as "shots," that were hung between the trees.

Birds in the Calendar 1894

"roding" is spelt "roading" by Newton, who thus gives the preference to the Anglo-Saxon description of the aërial tracks followed by the bird, over the alternative derivation from the French "roder," which means to wander.

Birds in the Calendar 1894

Go to your local magazine store and look at all the hot roding magazines available there.

Suggesting the Suggestion Box Idea 2009

As with much else about it, the woodcock has this word—“roding”—to itself.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Our trawl was in, our fish in the waist of the dory, and we lay to our roding line and second anchor, so we might not drift miles to loo'ard while waiting for the vessel to pick us up.

The Trawler 1912

Lashed to the wind'ard buoy I was by a length of roding line, to my knees in water the better part of the time, and busy enough with the bailing.

The Trawler 1912

The minister, curled up in the bow on a rather uncomfortable cushion of anchor and roding, caught glimpses of the receding shore over the crests behind.

Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

He cut the roding just as Lonesome reached tide mark.

Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907