rods

noun

Meaning

A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.
A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.
To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.
To penetrate sexually.
To hot rod.

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