What is "rods"

Usage examples of "rods".

Beside the rig lay a mountainous heap of drilling rods, beyond them the ten thousand-gallon puddling reservoir to provide water for the hole.

Rod was driving a sedan with Harry as a secret passenger in the rear seat, but both were watching this startling thing, because Harry was up and looking at Rods first call.

The small cottage with the one-room shed off the sagging porch stands less than a hundred rods down a muddy side road from the kaystone where the stone paving begins on the north military road as it makes its last wide arc to head west into upper Diev.

Yarrl lifts several iron rods, those left by the carter on the bench, into the rack.

Dorrin takes the tongs and lifts one of the smaller rods from his own rack and eases it into the forge.

Brede calls a halt several hundred rods beyond the bridge, on a flat rise where the low walls of Elparta can barely be seen.

Here the river is as narrow as it gets, a little more than three rods of smooth-flowing water.

Dorrin studies the black iron rods as they work, then checks the steam spill valve, opening it to watch the white vapor stream into the sky.

Tyrel looks at the swiftly stroking rods, the planetary gear, and the flywheel.

Then he shrugs, looking at the three holes in the road, each roughly three rods apart.

Behind the vanguard, separated by less than a dozen rods, are the first Gallosian levies.

Behind the first set of levies, a half-hundred rods back, are the shimmering banners of the White Wizards.

When he is perhaps two rods from the group, seeing no bows and hoping there are none, he reins up.

He pauses as he senses the concentration of chaos no more than a dozen rods before him on the hilltop.

Slowly, slowly the connecting rods begin to pick up speed, and the heat from the boiler builds, and more water spills across the heavy-timbered half-deck that holds the engine.