Variable measurement, usually between 15 and 16.5 feet. (Bennett, Judith M. Women in the Medieval English Countryside, 234)
Lineal measurement equal to 16.5 feet; a pole.
A rail or track from which a curtain, drapery, or sometimes a valance is hung. A traverse rod is operated with a cord and pulley system, and curtains on a flat curtain rod are opened and closed by hand.
A linear measure of 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet.
one quarter acre (35 yards by 35 yards)
equals 16.5 feet. Used to measure portages.
Surveyor's post, clearly and distinctively marked with metres, decimetres and centimetres, used with a level (e.g. dumpy level) to measure distances, and differences in elevation.
a unit of area, equivalent to 40 perch or 1/4 acre.
Long stem or pole that connects two pieces of the press so that they act together.
surveying measurement. One rod equals 16.5 feet or 25 links. Syn: "pole".
a linear unit of measurement equal to 16@ feet.
A way of measuring distance when portaging a canoe. Most people accept that a rod is 16 feet, or one canoe length.
A graduated staff used in determining the difference in elevation between two points. The two most common types of rods are the Philadelphia Rod, graduated in feet and hundredths of a foot, and a California Rod, graduated in feet, inches, and eighths of an inch.
A metal fixture that holds curtain window treatments instead of a pole.
5-1/2 square yards or 16.5 feet (same as a pole)
160 feet measured in a line, a unit of measurement.
A measure of distance equal to 16 feet—about one canoe length. Often used when portaging a canoe.
Metal or wooden hardware that supports curtain fabric across the top of a window.
A measure of length, 16 feet.
A rod is a device from which curtains are hung, used in place of a pole. Double rods are used for two layers of fabric.
An otherwise archaic unit of English measure used in specifying the length of portages. A rod equals 16½ feet, with 320 rods to the mile.
Linear unit of measurement equal to 16.5 feet.
A rod is a unit of length, equal to 11 cubits, 5.0292 metres or 16.5 feet. A rod is the same length as a perchA perch is also a unit of area of land = 1 square rod, and a unit of cubic measure of stonework, usually = 16.5 feet by 1 foot by 1.5 feet = 24.75 cubic feet. and a pole. The lengths of the perch (one rod) and chain (four rods) were standardized in 1607 by Edmund Gunter.