Dictionary Entry
rod
rod is a 3-letter English word with 13 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes). Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 13 senses
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- 1noun
A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
- 2noun
An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.
- 3noun
A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
- 4noun
A support for a fishing line; a fish pole.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
An instrument for measuring.
- 7noun
A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.
- 8noun
any rod-shaped bacterium
- 9noun
a gangster's pistol
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- 10noun
a long thin implement made of metal or wood
- 11noun
a visual receptor cell that is sensitive to dim light
- 12noun
a square rod of land
- 13noun
a linear measure of 16.5 feet
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