What is the meaning of RODS. Phrases containing RODS
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Vrb phrs. To rain very heavily.
Rodder is American slang for a person who converts cars into hot rods.
Rods is British slang for the store Harrods.
An old-time hobo practice, now virtually obsolete. The hobo would place a board across truss rods under a car and ride on it. This was very dangerous even in pleasant weather, and the possibility was ever present that you might doze, get careless, become too cramped, or lose your nerve-and roll under the wheels
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A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.
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A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top.
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A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
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One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
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One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
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Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.
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To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps.
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A piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers, lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own weight; a kind of cam.
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A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
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A texture of osiers, twigs, or rods; articles made of such a texture.
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Full of rods or twigs.
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One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party.
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of Rodsman
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The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
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A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil.
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Two small, pointed rods of metal, formerly used in the treatment called Perkinism.
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To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, metal rods, etc.
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Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc.
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