rone
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of rone
C19: origin unknown
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The fieldis ouerflowis With gowans that growis, Quhair lilies like low is As red as the rone.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Conquest of wyves is rone thoroughe this lande, Cleyming of Right to haue the hyegher hande.
From Disguising at Hertford by John Lydgate
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 Howard D. Pollyen
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 Marshall Pinckney Wilder
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 Henry Cabot Lodge
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
