ROOD

crucifix, rood, rood-tree

(noun) representation of the cross on which Jesus died

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Rood (plural Roods)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Rood is the 5560^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6254 individuals. Rood is most common among White (93.49%) individuals.

Anagrams

• door, odor, ordo

Etymology

Noun

rood (plural roods)

(archaic) A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.

• act III scene 4

A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre.

(UK, dialect, obsolete) A measure of five and a half yards in length.

Synonyms

• (quarter of an acre): farthingdale, day's work, daywork, farthing, ferling, farthingdeal, farthingdole, farundel, yard, rod, (Scottish) Scottish rood, (Israeli) dunam

Hypernyms

• (quarter of an acre): See acre

Hyponyms

• (quarter of an acre): lug, perch, (now chiefly Scottish) fall (all 1/40 rood)

Anagrams

• door, odor, ordo

Source: Wiktionary

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Rood, n. Etym: [AS. rr, D. roede rod, G. ruthe, rute, OHG. ruota. CF. Rod a measure.]

1. A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.

Note: Generally, the Trinity is represented, the Father as an elderly man fully clothed, with a nimbus around his head, and holding the cross on which the Son is represented as crucified, the Holy Spirit descending in the form of a dove near the Son's head. Figures of the Virgin Mary and of St. John are often placed near the principal figures. Savior, in thine image seen Bleeding on that precious rood. Wordsworth.

2. A measure of five and a half yards in length; a red; a perch; a pole. [Prov.Eng.]

3. The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods. By the rood, by the cross; -- a phrase formerly used in swearing. "No, by the road, not so." Shak.

– Rood beam (Arch.), a beam across the chancel of a church, supporting the road.

– Rood loft (Arch.), a loft or gallery, in a church, on which the rood and its appendagess were set up to view. Gwilt.

– Rood screen (Arch.), a screen, between the choir and the body of the church, over which the rood was placed. Fairholt.

– Rood tower (Arch.), a tower at the intersection of the nave and transept of a church; -- when crowned with a spire it was called also rood steeple. Weale.

– Rood tree, the cross. [Obs.] "Died upon the rood tree." Gower.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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