ro.

Noun

rood (plural roods)

1. (archaic) A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.
   • The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.1577, Raphaell Holinshed; Richarde Stanyhurst [i.e., Richard Stanihurst], “[The Historie of Irelande […].] The Thirde Booke of the Historie of Ireland, Comprising the Raigne of Henry the Eyght: ….”...
2. A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre.
   • Next a marsh, it would seem, and now mere earth / Desperate and done with; (so a fool finds mirth, / Makes a thing and then mars it, till his mood / Changes and off he goes!) within a rood— / Bog, clay and rubble, sand and stark black dearth.1855, Robert Browning, “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.’”, in Men and Women […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza XXV

   Synonyms:

   farthingdale, day's work, daywork, farthing, ferling, farthingdeal, farthingdole, farundel, yard, rod

3. (historical, Chester) An area of sixty-four square yards.
4. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A measure of five and a half yards in length.
   • Thus Satan […] his other parts besides / Prone on the flood, extended long and large, / Lay floating many a rood […]1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
5. (archaic) The human face.
   • Nou goth sonne under wode,—
     Me reweth, Marie, thi faire Rode.
     Nou goth sonne under tre,—13th century, Edmund of Abingdon (or Anonymous); reproduced in Carleton Fairchild Brown (ed.), English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century (1932), p. 1, from Bodl. MS. Arch. Selden 74, f.55v

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