rod
noun
[ rɒd ]
• a thin straight bar, especially of wood or metal.
• "concrete walls reinforced with steel rods"
Similar:
bar,
stick,
pole,
baton,
staff,
shaft,
strut,
rail,
spoke,
cane,
birch,
switch,
knout,
• a fishing rod.
• "he hooked an enormous fish which almost pulled the rod from out of his hands"
• another term for perch3 (sense 1 of the noun).
• a pistol or revolver.
• a light-sensitive cell of one of the two types present in large numbers in the retina of the eye, responsible mainly for monochrome vision in poor light.
Origin:
late Old English rodd ‘slender shoot growing on or cut from a tree’, also ‘straight stick or bundle of twigs used to inflict punishment’; probably related to Old Norse rudda ‘club’.
