Rod Definition

rŏd
rods
noun
rods
A straight, slender shoot or stem cut from, or still part of, a bush or tree.
Webster's New World
Any straight, or almost straight, stick, shaft, bar, staff, etc., of wood, metal, or other material.
Curtain rods, a lightning rod.
Webster's New World
An offshoot or branch of a family or tribe; stock or race.
Webster's New World
A stick or switch, or a bundle of sticks or switches, for beating as punishment.
Webster's New World
Punishment; chastisement.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A nickname for the male given names Rodney and Roderick.

Wiktionary
idiom
ride the rods
  • to steal a ride on a freight train
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Rod

Noun

Singular:
rod
Plural:
rods

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Rod

  • ride the rods

Origin of Rod

  • Abbreviated form of “Rodney" and of “Roderick", both with roots originating from Germanic hrōd (“fame")

    From Wiktionary

  • Old English *rodd or *rodde (attested in dative plural roddum), of uncertain origin.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English rodd from Old English

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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