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rod noun

  /ɹɑd/ , /ɹɒd/
  • A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
 vara
  • A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
 barra, fierro, pértiga, rodillo, vara, vírgula
  • 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.
 bastón
  • (slang, vulgar) The penis.
 verga
  • 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.
 caña
lightning rod
pararrayos, pararrayo
connecting rod
biela
Aaron's rod
gordolobo
curtain rod
barra
fishing rod
caña de pesca, caña de pescar
spare the rod and spoil the child
escatima el palo y malcría al hijo, quien bien te quiere, te hará llorar, la letra con sangre entra
rod cell
bastoncillo
divining rod
varita
rod-shaped
bastón
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