rod

rod (danh từ) nghĩa là thanh, que, gậy, cọc.

1. A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.Que, thanh, gậy hoặc cán thẳng, có tiết diện tròn.
2. A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.Thanh dài dùng làm một phần khung, chẳng hạn khung mái che hoặc lều.
3. A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
4. A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
5. An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.

• The circus strong man proved his strength by bending an iron rod, and then straightening it.
• When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.
• The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod.