ROOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rood mean? 

• ROOD (noun)
  The noun ROOD has 1 sense:

1. representation of the cross on which Jesus died

  Familiarity information: ROOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Representation of the cross on which Jesus died

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

crucifix; rood; rood-tree

Hypernyms ("rood" is a kind of...):

Cross (a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry)

 Context examples 

“By the rood! if it is not Black Simon of Norwich!” cried Aylward.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“And, by the rood! he hath some strange wares,” cried John.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By the rood! I had forgot him,” John answered, rising and dragging from under him no less a person than the Spanish caballero, Don Diego Alvarez.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the black rood! it is a good piece of yew, well nocked, well strung, well waxed, and very joyful to the feel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the rood! cried the fierce man-at-arms, I will see the color of their blood ere I turn my mare's head for the mountains.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By the black rood of Waltham!” he roared, “if any knave among you lays a finger-end upon the edge of my gown, I will crush his skull like a filbert!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By the rood!” he broke out suddenly, slapping his thigh with his great red hand, “I knew that there was something a-missing, but I could not bring to my mind what it was.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the rood! if I had my will upon ye, I should nail you upon the abbey doors, as they hang vermin before their holes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I would fain try my hand at it, for, by the black rood! I think that it might be amended.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had it, together with this piece of the true rood, from the five-and-twentieth descendant of Joseph of Arimathea, who still lives in Jerusalem alive and well, though latterly much afflicted by boils.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)