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bastinado (or bastinade), bat, baton, billy, billy club, bludgeon, cane, club, cudgel, nightstick, rung [Scottish], sap, shillelagh (also shillalah), staff, truncheon, waddy [Australian]
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When in Rome, spare the rod and spoil the whole barrel. — Paul Muldoon, The New Yorker, "Position Paper," 2 Sep. 2019 Just poke the skinny metal rod into the thickest part of the fish, hold it there for three seconds, remove it, and touch the tip of the cake tester to the skin under your bottom lip. — Alex Delany, Bon Appétit, "Here's How to Tell if Salmon is Cooked Perfectly," 14 Aug. 2019 The narrow rods peeking out from the walls of the clay mine didn’t initially look like much. — Deming Wang, National Geographic, "Bizarre fossils reveal Asia’s oldest known forest," 8 Aug. 2019 On command, the rods de-orbit and slam into targets at hypersonic speeds, using kinetic energy to do tremendous damage. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Everything We Know About the Air Force's Secret X-37B Spaceplane," 30 July 2019 Instead, the blade rod can be removed from the pitcher completely, with options to use a single blade or stack a second at different heights. — Braelyn Wood, Health.com, "This $27 Blender Is my Holy-Grail Kitchen Gadget For Healthy Eating," 25 July 2019 Yet as one problem is fixed another emerges: The lower control arms on the tire rods are cracked and need replacing. — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, "4 addresses in 4 months: This is what poverty looks like for this Cincinnati family," 10 July 2019 Speechless, Orr desperately grabbed line with his right hand and held onto the rod with his left. — oregonlive.com, "Monroe: Ocean fishing has vastly improved this summer," 6 July 2019 Zirconium allows the neutrons generated from fission in the pellets to readily pass among the many rods submerged in water inside a reactor core, supporting a self-sustaining, heat-producing nuclear reaction. — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, "Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way," 1 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'rod.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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