Rod
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- A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
- The circus strong man proved his strength by bending an iron rod, and then straightening it.
- 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.
- The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod.
- 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.
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