rods

• A rod extended from the piston through the cylinder head at either end, and at each end of the rods was attached a flat coil of wire which, by the reciprocating action of the piston, was caused to move back and forth through the field of an electromagnet. —  Prodigal genius - Tesla Biography
• Inspectors analyzing microfiches found designs for building and disassembling nuclear fuel rods and recovering plutonium from spent fuel rods, which is one way of making a nuclear bomb. —  ModerateVoters.org
• After swimming about twenty rods, his feet touched a pebbly bed, and in a moment more he was in shallow water enough to obtain footing; and wading a little further on, he came to land. —  The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West
• They had been brought down stream some forty rods, and piled one above another. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• They say to the lesser floods run dry Under their rods are the rocks reproved. —  Still Jim

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