spö — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
spö is used for these senses in English:
- rod A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
- 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.
- switch A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.
rod — full definition
- noun A straight, thin bar, stick, or pole made of wood, metal, or similar material.
- noun A long, tapering pole used for fishing.
- noun An old unit of length equal to about 5.5 yards (roughly 5 meters), once used in surveying and land measurement.
- noun (slang) A handgun.
switch — full definition
- noun A device used to turn an electrical circuit on or off.
- noun A change or exchange from one thing to another.
- verb To change from one thing, state, or place to another.
- noun A device that connects multiple devices on a computer network, directing data between them.