rod
/ɹɑd/ verb C2- To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
- To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.
- To penetrate sexually.
- To hot rod.
He/she/it rods · Past rodded · Past participle rodded · -ing form rodding
Verb forms
- Base form
- rod
- He/she/it
- rods
- Past
- rodded
- Past participle
- rodded
- -ing form
- rodding
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In the first place, I may tell you that Moriarty rules with a rod of iron over his people.
Then I took two lengths of a fishing-rod, which came to just six feet, and I went back with my client to where the elm had been.
I fastened the rod on end, marked out the direction of the shadow, and measured it.
If a rod of six feet threw a shadow of nine, a tree of sixty-four feet would throw one of ninety-six, and the line of the one would of course be the line of the other.
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