How to pronounce rod

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What rod means

noun

Most people know rod in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

An old measure of length, five and a half yards

In a sentence: The old farm map showed that the stone wall was forty rods long.

Where it comes from: It comes from the Old English rodd, a rod or pole, probably from an older word for a stick. Surveyors once used a measuring pole exactly one rod long.

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