rone
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of rone
C19: origin unknown
Example Sentences
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Says Tim, "You watch me now, ma frien', I'll geeve dat calf wan scare, I will rone down an' push him quick On Kankakee Reevere."
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
The name was formerly spelled this way and the last syllable pronounced rone.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III by Lodge, Henry Cabot
My old Oak was there, and the apple trees, and the peaches and the pretty things that bloom in red and rone.
From The Secret of the Creation by Pollyen, Howard D.
O. N. vill, wild, + runi, a boar, a wild boar, Norse rone, raane, Sw. dial. råne, Dan., with metathesis, orne.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
Conquest of wyves is rone thoroughe this lande, Cleyming of Right to haue the hyegher hande.
From Disguising at Hertford by Lydgate, John
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