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4 lettersPronunciation /ɹuːd/Part of speech nounSorted doorStarts with REnds with D0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. representation of the cross on which Jesus died

Word origin

From Middle English rode, rood (“cross”), from Old English rōd (“cross”), from Proto-Germanic *rōdō, *rōdǭ (“rod, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *rōt-, *reh₁t- (“bar, beam, stem”).

Used in a sentence

  • Have you forgot me? No, by the rood, not so.
  • By holy rood, a royal beard! / How say you? we have slept, my lords. / My beard has grown into my lap.
  • […] a bumptious fool whose god was property, not property in vast estates such as a true man might worship, but in paltry roods.

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