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Universal
1 a thin straight bar, especially of wood or metal: concrete walls reinforced with steel rods a curtain rod a wand or staff as a symbol of office, authority, or power: the royal insignia included the ring, the sceptre, and the rod a slender straight stick or shoot growing on or cut from a tree or bush: the roof is formed of willow and hazel rods woven between willow rafters a stick used for caning or flogging: he swung the rod again in a threatening arc (
the rod )
the use of a stick as punishment: if you’d been my daughter, you’d have felt the rod vulgar slang a man’s penis. 2 a fishing rod: he hooked an enormous fish which almost pulled the rod from out of his hands the largest carp ever caught on rod and line in Britain an angler: over a hundred rods turned out for the day, including some famous names 4 US informal a pistol or revolver. 5 Anatomy a light-sensitive cell of one of the two types present in large numbers in the retina of the eye, responsible mainly for monochrome vision in poor light. Compare with cone (sense 3 of the noun) .
