meaning of rod
1. A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
2. An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.
3. A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
4. A support for a fishing line; a fish pole.
5. A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc. ; a connecting bar.
6. An instrument for measuring.
7. A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.
8. any rod-shaped bacterium
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