rod
Cross references:
1. measure
rod \'ra:d\ \-l*s\ \-.li-k\ n [ME, fr. OE rodd; akin to ON rudda club] 1a1:
a straight slender stick growing on or cut from a tree or bush 1a2: OSIER
1a3: a stick or bundle of twigs used to punish; also : PUNISHMEN T 1a4: a
shepherd's cudgel 1a5: a pole with a line and usu. a reel attached for
fishing 1b1: a slender bar (as of wood or metal) 1b2: a bar or staff for
measuring 1b3: SCEPTER; also : a wand or staff carried as a badge of of
fice (as of marshal) 2a: a unit of length 2b: a square rod 3: any of the
long rod-shaped sensory bodies in the retina responsive to fa int light 4:
a bacterium shaped like a rod slang 5: PISTOL - rod.less aj