different between farthingdale vs rood

English

Noun

farthingdale (plural farthingdales)

1. (Britain, historical, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.

Synonyms

• rood

References

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English

Etymology

From Middle English rode, rood (“cross”), from Old English r?d (“cross”), from Proto-Germanic *r?d?, *r?d? (“rod, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *r?t-, *reh?t- (“bar, beam, stem”).

Cognate with German Rute (“rod, cane, pole”), Norwegian roda (“rod”). Largely displaced by cross. More at rod.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?d/

Noun

rood (plural roods)

1. (archaic) A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.
2. A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXV:

     Next a marsh, it would seem, and now mere earth / Desperate and done with; (so a fool finds mirth, / Makes a thing and then mars it, till his mood / Changes and off he goes!) within a rood— / Bog, clay and rubble, sand and stark black dearth.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter V, p. 58, [2]

     […] a bumptious fool whose god was property, not property in vast estates such as a true man might worship, but in paltry roods.
3. (Chester, historical) An area of sixty-four square yards.
4. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A measure of five and a half yards in length.
   • c 1667, John Milton, s:Paradise Lost (1667), Book I.

     Thus Satan...his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...

Synonyms

• (quarter of an acre): farthingdale, day's work, daywork, farthing, ferling, farthingdeal, farthingdole, farundel, yard, rod, (Scottish) Scottish rood, (Israeli) dunam

Hypernyms

• (quarter of an acre): See acre

Hyponyms

• (quarter of an acre): lug, perch, (now chiefly Scottish) fall (all ¹?₄₀ rood)

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• door, odor, ordo

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rôot, from Old Dutch r?t, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?rowd?ós, from the root *h?rewd?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro?t/
• Hyphenation: rood
• Rhymes: -o?t

Adjective

rood (comparative roder, superlative roodst)

1. red

   Veel dakpannen zijn rood - A lot of roof tiles are red

2. (politics) left, socialist, labor

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: rooi

See also

Anagrams

• door, oord

Saterland Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro?d/

Adjective

1. red

Volapük

Noun

rood (nominative plural roods)

1. category

Declension