lease rod

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noun

a rod or bar between the whip roll and the harness on a loom for keeping the warp in place.

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Origin of lease rod

First recorded in 1815–25

Words nearby lease rod

leaseback, leasehold, leaseholder, leaseman, lease-purchase, lease rod, leash, leash law, leasing, least, least bittern

How to use lease rod in a sentence

So I asked the driver to honk the horn, which he does, and Rod looks over.
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And of course, Rod, being Rod, goes for it a hundred percent; his mouth drops open and he says, ‘What?’
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile|Robert Ward|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Increasingly, criminals actually lease their malware from a group that guarantees their malware against detection.
No, North Korea Didn’t Hack Sony|Marc Rogers|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Ironically, as pope, his championing of the poor has given Liberation Theology a new lease on life.
How Pope Francis Became the World’s BFF|Jason Berry|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Rod Stewart and Diane Sawyer This is just highly entertaining.
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He wishes to cultivate it still, and offers to renew the lease for any number of years, and pay the rent punctually.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
The rent for which the owner can lease it, emerges simply as a consequence of the existing state of wages and prices.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
He and his friends obtained the lease, for thirty-one years, of a rival line, which turned out a great financial success.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
A connecting rod worked a balance-beam, which worked the air-pump, feed-pump, and plug-rod for moving the valves.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick