Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to woad
Participle: woaded
Gerund: woading
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | woad |
| you | woad |
| he;she;it | woads |
| we | woad |
| you | woad |
| they | woad |
Perfect
| I | have woaded |
| you | have woaded |
| he;she;it | has woaded |
| we | have woaded |
| you | have woaded |
| they | have woaded |
Past
| I | woaded |
| you | woaded |
| he;she;it | woaded |
| we | woaded |
| you | woaded |
| they | woaded |
Pluperfect
| I | had woaded |
| you | had woaded |
| he;she;it | had woaded |
| we | had woaded |
| you | had woaded |
| they | had woaded |
Future
| I | will woad |
| you | will woad |
| he;she;it | will woad |
| we | will woad |
| you | will woad |
| they | will woad |
Future Perfect
| I | will have woaded |
| you | will have woaded |
| he;she;it | will have woaded |
| we | will have woaded |
| you | will have woaded |
| they | will have woaded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | woad |
| you | woad |
| he;she;it | woad |
| we | woad |
| you | woad |
| they | woad |
Perfect
| I | have woaded |
| you | have woaded |
| he;she;it | have woaded |
| we | have woaded |
| you | have woaded |
| they | have woaded |
Imperfect
| I | woaded |
| you | woaded |
| he;she;it | woaded |
| we | woaded |
| you | woaded |
| they | woaded |
Pluperfect
| I | had woaded |
| you | had woaded |
| he;she;it | had woaded |
| we | had woaded |
| you | had woaded |
| they | had woaded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would woad |
| you | would woad |
| he;she;it | would woad |
| we | would woad |
| you | would woad |
| they | would woad |
Perfect
| I | would have woaded |
| you | would have woaded |
| he;she;it | would have woaded |
| we | would have woaded |
| you | would have woaded |
| they | would have woaded |
Imperative
| you | woad |
| we | Let's woad |
| you | woad |
Verbs conjugated like 'woad'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'woad'
goad,
load,
toad,
wad,
wood,
word,
bad,
bead,
boak,
board,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English wode, from Old English wād (“woad”), from Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz (“woad”), from Proto-Indo-European *woydʰ-. Cognate with Old Frisian wēd (“woad”), Dutch wede (“woad”), German Waid (“woad”), and with French guède, Italian guado (“woad”) (both borrowed from Frankish). See also weed. See: Middle English '
wode'.
Sample Sentences
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Now as the tenants after woading, pay the ſame rent as before, one cannot wonder at landlords making use of such an easy method to raise money: but it is the tenants that quarrel most at it; they assert the land to be 7 sg. an acre the worse for it; here then lies the enquiry. [1771, Arthur Young, The Farmer's Tour through the East of England, page 59:]
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Such land was usually woaded for two, three or four years and then corned,[…]. [1968, Eric Kerridge, The Agricultural Revolution, page 209:]
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He planted woad on it, and engaged a person from the north to manage it; and the produce was so abundant as to afford immense profit. I believe he only woaded two years, and then let it. [1812, Edmund Burke, The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1811, page 517:]
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All woollen goods truly mathered, ſhall be marked with a red roſe, and a blue roſe, and all ſuch truly woaded throughout, with a blue roſe only; and if any perſon shall affix any ſuch mark falsely, he ſhall forfeit, for every piece ſo marked 4l. (ſee under). [1777, George Clark, The Penal Statutes Abridged, and Alphabetically Arranged, page 111:]
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Againſt a dyer for woading his cloth only to the third ſtall (whereas the custom of dyers was to woad it to the fourth ſtall) and then marking it with the company's seal as if it had been woaded to the fourth ſtall; he was found guilty of woading it only to the third ſtall, and not of ſetting ſuch mark to it, for which reaſon the court was of opinion no judgement ought to be againſt the defendant. [1793, Charles Viner, A General Abridgment of Law and Equity, volume 14, page 409:]
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This wool, when scowered, weighed 50 lbs.; when woaded blue, and picked, 48 lbs. [1809, Charles Henry Hunt, A Practical Treatise on the Merino and Anglo-Merino Breeds of Sheep, page 64:]