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metspö — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • rod noun A straight, thin bar, stick, or pole made of wood, metal, or similar material.

Senses

metspö is used for these senses in English:

  • fishing rod A rod, often made in sections, which carries a line used for angling and is used to support both the line and the reel and to cast the line.
  • rod An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5+1⁄2 yards.

rod — full definition

  1. noun A straight, thin bar, stick, or pole made of wood, metal, or similar material.
  2. noun A long, tapering pole used for fishing.
  3. noun An old unit of length equal to about 5.5 yards (roughly 5 meters), once used in surveying and land measurement.
  4. noun (slang) A handgun.

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