ROOD Synonyms

• a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny

• a long thin implement made of metal or wood

• any rod-shaped bacterium

• a linear measure of 16.5 feet

• a square rod of land

• a visual receptor cell that is sensitive to dim light

• a gangster's pistol

• representation of the cross on which Jesus died

• a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

• the enclosed land around a house or other building

• a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)

• the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

• a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

• a tract of land where logs are accumulated

• an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines

• a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen

• an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

• The work done in a day; a day's work.

• The amount of land that can be worked in a day.

• Work carried out or paid for on a daily basis; day labour.

• Work done during the day; specifically, the cover-work carried out by someone involved in intelligence work, as opposed to their secret activities.

• An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre.

• A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m2), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma.

• Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m2).