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Another word for rod

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rod

n.

A rodlike body
staff, bar, pole, wand, stave, baton, spike, pin, rodule, cylinder, bacillus, bacillary body, bacilliform body, cylindrical object, scepter, mace, stick, twig, switch, whip, stock, stalk, trunk; see also stick.
A fishing rod
pole, bamboo, rod and reel, tackle.
Kinds of fishing rods include: steel, jointed, bamboo, willow, bait, trolling, casting, fly, trout, salmon, bass, deep-sea, tarpon, swordfish.

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Another word for rod

noun

A relatively long, straight, rigid piece of metal or other solid material:

bar, bloom², shaft, slab, stick. See thing

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Rod, a stick, another form of " rod," O.E.
After a cold and snowy night it needed a divining-rod to find it.
Each rod therefore contains on two of its faces multiples of digits which are complementary to those on the other two faces; and the multiples of a digit and of its complement are reversed in position.
I do not remember what they all were; but I do know that mother, father, sister, teacher were among them--words that were to make the world blossom for me, "like Aaron's rod, with flowers."
In 1831 Wheatstone by his " magic lyre" experiment showed that, when the sounding-boards of two musical instruments are connected together by a rod of pine wood, a tune played on one will be faithfully reproduced by the other.

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