Rod

The circus strong man proved his strength by bending an iron rod, and then straightening it.

Which makes the concept known as Rods From God the ultimate form of kinetic weaponry. This theoretical weapon would drop telephone pole sized rods of dense tungsten from a satellite in orbit. Picking up speed with each passing second, the rod would then penetrate the ground and generate an explosion akin to a small nuclear weapon using nothing but gravity for its propulsion.

When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.

So was I brought up: they tell mee, that in all my youth, I never felt rod [translating verges] but twice, and that very lightly.

The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod.

I notched a rod and used it to measure the length of rope to cut.

‘And this thicket, so full of a natural art, was in the immediate vicinity, within a few rods, of the dwelling of Madame Deluc, whose boys were in the habit of closely examining the shrubberies about them in search of the bark of the sassafras.’

In one of the villages I saw the next summer a cow tethered by a rope six rods long[…].

A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, embowered in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."

the valley is forty to sixty rods wide

The house had a small yard of about six rods in size.

The engine threw a rod, and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.

The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color.

He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.

One of them strode to his side and ran experienced fingers through his clothes. "No rod," he reported, "where's the jewelry?"

[I'm gonna][…]throw some vaseline right in the crack a your ass, then I'm gonna shove my rod in your open hole and try to pacify your ornery soul.

These cylindrical rods fly through the air at incredible speeds and can only be picked up by high-speed cameras.

During one such broadcast in 1997, the esteemed radio host bellowed, “I got a fax earlier today from MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) in Arizona and they said what you think are rods are actually insects!”

He tells of a home video showing a rod flying into the open mouth of a girl singing at a wedding.

In the early days troubles were experienced with oscillation from the rod drive and with the transformers, but were overcome later, and these machines performed useful service until superseded by more modern locomotives less costly in maintenance.

On impulse he moved around to the opposite side of the couple, in the direction which Grace's broad buttocks were pointed, for a full view of the big boned woman's back side. Now Grace wouldn't mind one iota if he rodded her from the rear.

There were three clear sets, more than what you might expect at Heartbreak Point, given all the juvies rodding in and out of there with their girlfriends.

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was sent to prison on corruption charges surrounding his time in office.