rod
noun
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/ɹɒd/
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- 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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canna,
bacchetta,
canna da pesca
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- 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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bacchetta,
verga
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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.
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bastoncello,
barra,
biella
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- (slang, vulgar) The penis.
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verga
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asta
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- (fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
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bacchetta
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- A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
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bastone,
palo,
pertica,
stecca
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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.
- (archaic) A 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).
- (biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
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pertica
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