† thode Obs. rare.
Forms: 1 þoden, 3 þode, þodde, 7 thode, (9 thod).
[OE. þoden str. masc., ? f. stem þud- of OE. þyddan (:—*þudjan), pa. tense þudde, to strike, thrust, push, thud.]
A violent wind, a whirlwind. With quot. 1684 cf. thud n. 1.
| c 725 Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 136 Alcanus [? Altanus], þoden. c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xviii. 128 Sio ᵹeornfulnes..ablent ðæs modes eaᵹan..suæ suæ dust deð ðæs lichoman eaᵹan on sumera mid ðodene [v.r. ðodne]. a 1000 Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 203/5 Ceruleis turbinibus, laᵹeflodum þodenum. c 1000 ælfric Gram. ix. (Z.) 37 Turbo, ðoden. c 1012 O.E. Chron. an. 793 (MS. D.) Her wæron reðe forebecna cumene ofer Norðanhymbra land{ddd}þ[æt] wæron ormete þodenas & liᵹrescas. c 1205 Lay. 27645 He þraste to þan fihte swa þode. [c 1275 þodde] doþ on felde. 1684 Bunyan Seasonable Counsel 206 Those thodes, gusts, blasts, or battering storms that beat against thy wall. [1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Thods, an old northern term for sudden gusts of wind.] |