ROD
/ɹɒd/
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Definition
/ɹɒd/
noun
- A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
- A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
- A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.“When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.”
- A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
- An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.“The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod.”
verb
- To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
- To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.
- To penetrate sexually.
- To hot rod.
Source: Wiktionary
