square rod
Americannoun
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“There is not a square rod of admirable, hardly one of passable, gravel-walk in all of the Exposition Ground,” he wrote.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Every square rod of the valley for a mile was hunted over without result, and we all gathered once more about the two cellars, in which the coals still glowed.
From Captured by the Navajos by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Curtis
The hook-gauge consists of a square rod of, say, lin side, with a metal hook at the bottom, as shown in Fig.
From The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns by Henry C. Adams
Near one end a small square hole was cut, and through this they put a square rod of iron, which the blacksmith sold them for a shilling—about three times its value.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies
A hole pierced in this corner of the plate serves to receive a square rod of lead, which connects the plates together and supports one of the poles or contacts of the accumulator.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 by Various
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