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RODS
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RODS is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.
RODS root ROD-s
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noun
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A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
- The circus strong man proved his strength by bending an iron rod, and then straightening it.
- A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
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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.
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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.
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A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.
- I notched a rod and used it to measure the length of rope to cut.
- archaicA unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, ¹⁄₄ chain, 5+¹⁄₂ yards, 16+¹⁄₂ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
- An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5+¹⁄₂ yards.
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archaicA unit of area equal to a square rod, 30+¹⁄₄ square yards or ¹⁄₁₆₀ acre.
- The house had a small yard of about six rods in size.
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A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a driveshaft.
- The engine threw a rod, and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.
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A rod cell: a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
- The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color.
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Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
- He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.
- A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and ¹⁄₈ to ¹⁄₄ inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
- slangA pistol; a gun.
- slangvulgarThe penis.
- slangA hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.
- A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
- A Cuisenaire rod.
- A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.
- A drain rod, being a set of segmented rods with interlocking connectors designed to remain attached even under rotation in use.
verb
- To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
- transitiveTo furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.
- slangtransitivevulgarTo penetrate sexually.
- slangTo hot rod.