Definitions for rood

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Spelling: [rood]

IPA: /rud/

Rood is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in rood (door).

Definitions for rood

noun

1. a crucifix, especially a large one at the entrance to the choir or chancel of a medieval church, often supported on a rood beam or rood screen.
2. a cross as used in crucifixion.
3. a unit of length varying locally from 5½ to 8 yards (5 to 7 meters).
4. a unit of land measure equal to 40 square rods or ¼ acre (0.10117 hectare).
5. a unit of 1 square rod (25.29 sq. m).
6. Archaic. the cross on which Christ died.

Origin of rood

before 900; Middle English; Old English rōd pole, crucifix; cognate with German Rute rod, twig

Examples for rood

Every rood of this region had been in possession of that humming army over there.

Every parish that could afford it seems to have had a rood loft and an organ in it.

It was from the town of Dedham, to the place where the filthy rood stood, ten miles.

Marilda undertook the care of the children at the rood, but she could not get on with them.

Awhile after she suddenly demanded, "Don't you think Miss rood looks like me?"

The night of Good Friday, three weeks past, he had a vision of the rood.

Then lifting again the rood, he turned away, and with him went the Norman.

So he bade her tell her brothers that he should meet them at the rood.

One of the most famous of these relics was the rood of Dovercourt.

The rood loft was now pulled down, and sold as old timber for 3s.