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

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.

On sixteen square rod of ground in my lower pasture, I put 140 Bushels of what we call Marle viz on 4 of these, No. Wt. corner were placed 50 bushels--on 4 others So.

From George Washington: Farmer by Haworth, Paul Leland

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

This would fertilize a square rod of land.

From Natalie: A Garden Scout by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth