square rod

American  

noun

1. a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one rod on each side.

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Example Sentences

“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

I suppose she is dead and it's all foolish, this hope, but I'll never believe it until I have examined every square rod within a radius of fifty miles from your camp.

From The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

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 Adams, Henry C.

A sack followed him on a rope tied to his leather belt, so that he could beat his hands against his breast as he covered every square rod of dead, curly grass on the uplands.

From The Plow-Woman by Gates, Eleanor

But amid these low, dense, dark spruces, which make a sort of canopied privacy of every square rod of ground, what could be more in keeping than this delicate musical whisper?

From In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs by Burroughs, John