rone

British  

/ ˈronˌpəɪp, ron, ˈrəʊnˌpaɪp, rəʊn /

noun

1. a drainpipe or gutter for carrying rainwater from a roof

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Etymology

Origin of rone

C19: origin unknown

Example Sentences

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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.

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

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

Conquest of wyves is rone thoroughe this lande, Cleyming of Right to haue the hyegher hande.

From Disguising at Hertford by Lydgate, John