rood

Preposition: of

• pasture: In addition to his farm property, John III had recently purchased a cottage and five roods of pasture in Wainfleet.

Converse of object

• support: Rood beam A beam, across the arch leading to the choir in the church, supporting the rood.
• have: The tall chancel arch has an anchor rood above the plain stone screen that divides the main sections of the church.
• hang: The effect is especially striking if the hanging rood is illuminated by the windows.
• stand: Sometimes on top of the screen would stand a large rood, or crucifix.

Adjective modifier

• great: Suspended between the sanctuary and nave is the great rood or crucifix.
• holy: Each corse lay flat, lifeless and flat, And, by the holy rood!
• former: They were sometimes surmounted by the royal arms, although this more commonly took the place of the former rood above the chancel arch.
• single: Every single rood in England was destroyed by Cranmer's cronies in the 1540s; not a single one survives.

Modifies a noun

• loft: The steps to the rood loft are still visible in the chancel arch.
• stair: The rood loft stairs curve sweetly behind the stepped pulpit.
• beam: The beam above is probably the rood beam - or not, perhaps.
• screen: Band of carved vine leaf cornice from the medieval rood screen set along the sill of the window.
• group: There is a rood group set in relief on the front of it.
• stairway: Beside it, a perfect rood loft stairway entrance.

Noun used with modifier

• century: The 15th century rood screen is painted with figures.
• oak: The interior, with its oak rood screen dividing the nave from the choir, is in perfect taste.
• stone: To your right are the remains of the medieval stone rood screen, existing elsewhere in Suffolk only at Bramford.