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rod noun

  /ɹɑd/ , /ɹɒd/
  • A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
прут, па́лка, сте́ржень, шта́нга
  • A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
прут, ро́зга
  • 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.
па́лочка, сте́ржень, шта́нга, шток
  • 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.
па́лочка, у́дочка, уди́лище

Rod properNoun

  • The god of the family, ancestors and fate in Slavic mythology.
Род
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