Dag vs. Rod
Dagnoun
A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
Dagnoun
A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
Dagnoun
A skewer.
Dagnoun
A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
Dagnoun
(obsolete) A dagger; a poniard.
Dagnoun
(obsolete) A kind of large pistol.
Dagnoun
The unbranched antler of a young deer.
Dagnoun
One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance.
Dagnoun
(graph theory) A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V, E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
Dagnoun
A misty shower; dew.
Dagverb
To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
Dagverb
To daggle or bemire.
Dagverb
(transitive) To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
Dagverb
(transitive) To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
Dagverb
To be misty; to drizzle.
Daginterjection
Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
Dagnoun
A dagger; a poniard.
Dagnoun
A large pistol formerly used.
Dagnoun
The unbranched antler of a young deer.
Dagnoun
A misty shower; dew.
Dagnoun
A loose end; a dangling shred.
Dagverb
To daggle or bemire.
Dagverb
To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment.
Dagverb
To be misty; to drizzle.
Dagnoun
10 grams
Dagnoun
a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
Rodnoun
A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
Rodnoun
A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
Rodnoun
(fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
Rodnoun
A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
Rodnoun
A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.
Rodnoun
(archaic) A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, ¼ chain, 5½ yards, 16½ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
Rodnoun
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, 5½ yards.
Rodnoun
(archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.
Rodnoun
A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a drive-shaft.
Rodnoun
(anatomy) Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
Rodnoun
(biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
Rodnoun
(slang) A pistol; a gun.
Rodnoun
A penis.
Rodnoun
(slang) A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.
Rodnoun
(ufology) A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
Rodnoun
(mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod.
Rodnoun
(rail transport) A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.
Rodverb
(construction) To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
Rodverb
To penetrate sexually.
Rodverb
(slang) To hot rod.
Rodnoun
A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
Rodnoun
A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
Rodnoun
A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; - called also perch, and pole.
Rodnoun
a linear measure of 16.5 feet
Rodnoun
a long thin implement made of metal or wood
Rodnoun
any rod-shaped bacterium
Rodnoun
a square rod of land
Rodnoun
visual receptor cell sensitive to dim light
Rodnoun
a gangster's pistol
