What is "roods"

Usage examples of "roods".

Preuss, “Das Ries und die Meteoriten-Theorie” (Stuttgart:Fortschritte der Mineralogie, *The only other events remotely comparable to the flooding of the Mediterranean were the “Great Missoula Roods,” which took place during the Pleistocene Ice Age in western North America.

In comparing the Missoula Roods to the filling of the Mediterranean, one should recall that the Mediterranean Basin now holds about one million cubic miles of water.

The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din.

The vast white headless phantom floats farther and farther from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din.