• n. （基督受難的）十字架；基督受難像；（英）路德（長度和面積單位）
• n. (Rood)人名；(英)魯德

來自中古英語 rood,來自古英語 rod,桿，柱，絞刑架，受難十字架，來自 Proto-Germanic*rodo, 桿，柱，來自 PIE*rot,桿，柱。可能與 rod 同源。

rood

rood: see rod

rood (n.)

Old English rod "pole," varying from 6 to 8 yards; also "cross," especially that upon which Christ suffered; "crucifix," especially a large one; also a measure of land, properly 40 square poles or perches, from Proto-Germanic *rod- (cognates: Old Saxon ruoda "stake, pile, cross," Old Frisian rode, Middle Dutch roede, Old High German ruota, German Rute "rod"), from PIE *ret- "post" (cognates: Latin ratis "raft," retae "trees standing on the bank of a stream;" Old Church Slavonic ratiste "spear, staff;" Lithuanian rekles "scaffolding"). Probably not connected with rod.

1. Not a rood remained to him.

沒有寸土留給他.

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2. My cousins and I live under the same rood.

我和我表兄弟們住在同一棟房子里.

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3. Traffic has been a lot smoother since the rood was broadened.

自從道路擴寬之后,交通順暢了許多.

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4. By the Rood, steward , death is but an inch distant from thee.

這句意思是說:仆役(蓋), 我敢肯定你現在與死亡近在咫尺.

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5. He glutted himself with rich rood.

他吃了太多油膩的食物.

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