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

A team of Kansas University doctors successfully removed the square rod - which made for a trickier surgery than a rounded skewer due to the sharp edges - over several hours.

From BBC

“There is not a square rod of admirable, hardly one of passable, gravel-walk in all of the Exposition Ground,” he wrote.

From Literature

A few old male seals first make their appearance and reconnoitre for two or three days, afterwards climbing the slopes and taking possession of the rookeries, each male reserving about a square rod for himself and his wives.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

Then plane the other two sides at right angles, so as to produce a square rod, which, at every part throughout its length, should fit the try square.

From Project Gutenberg