 A sign at the City Hall in Münster, Germany suggesting that the bar shown is one "Half Prussian Rod" A rod is a unit of length, equal to 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet (5.0292 metres in SI units) or 11 cubits. A rod is the same length as a perch[1] (note 1) and a pole. The lengths of the perch (one rod) and chain (four rods) were standardized in 1607 by Edmund Gunter. Town Hall in the Prinzipalmarkt Münster: the Prinzipalmarkt St Pauls Cathedral, Münster Münster is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ...
In general English usage, length (symbols: l, L) is but one particular instance of distance – an objects length is how long the object is – but in the physical sciences and engineering, the word length is in some contexts used synonymously with distance. Height is vertical distance; width (or breadth...
This article is about the unit of measure known as the yard. ...
A foot (plural: feet) is a non-SI unit of distance or length, measuring around a third of a meter. ...
The metre, or meter, is a measure of length. ...
Cover of brochure The International System of Units. ...
Cubit is the name for any one of many units of measure used by various ancient peoples. ...
Edmund Gunter (1581 - December 10, 1626), English mathematician, of Welsh extraction, was born in Hertfordshire in 1581. ...
The length is equal to the standardized length of the ox goad used by medieval English ploughmen; fields were measured in acres which were one chain (four rods) by one furlong (in the United Kingdom, ten chains). The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ...
This article is about the unit of measure known as the acre. ...
As a unit of measurement within the Imperial system, the chain is defined as 22 yards, 66 feet, or 4 rods. ...
The 5 furlong (1006 m) post on Epsom Downs A furlong is a measure of distance within Imperial units and U.S. customary units. ...
Because the furlong was "One Plough's Furrow Long" and a furrow was the length a plough team was to be driven without resting, the length of the furlong and the acre vary regionally, nominally due to differing soil types. In England the acre was 4,840 square yards, but in Scotland it was 6,150 square yards and in Ireland 7,840 square yards. In all three countries, fields were divided in acres and thus the furlong became a measure commonly used in horse racing, archery, and civic planning. The 5 furlong (1006 m) post on Epsom Downs A furlong is a measure of distance within Imperial units and U.S. customary units. ...
The 5 furlong (1006 m) post on Epsom Downs A furlong is a measure of distance within Imperial units and U.S. customary units. ...
An acre is an English unit of area, which is also frequently used in the United States and some Commonwealth countries. ...
Bars of metal one rod (16.5 feet) long were used as standards of length in surveying land in the past. One example of a surveyor's rod is a one piece metal bar encased in a cylindrical canvas tube (to keep the sun from heating it and making it increase in length) with a piece of the semiprecious gemstone jasper at each end of the rod (to prevent wear of the metal bar). Surveyor at work with a leveling instrument. ...
A selection of gemstone pebbles made by tumbling rough rock with abrasive grit, in a rotating drum. ...
Jasper pebble, one inch (2. ...
The rod is still in use as a unit of measure in certain specialised fields. In recreational canoeing, maps measure portages (overland paths where canoes must be carried) in rods. This is thought to persist due to the rod approximating the length of a typical canoe. In the United Kingdom, the sizes of allotment gardens continue to be measured in rods. Aluminum canoe, Upper Klamath Lake Canoeing on the Concord River. ...
For the Gentoo Linux package manager, see Portage (software). ...
A typical allotment plot, Essex, England In the United Kingdom, an allotment is a small area of land, let out at a nominal yearly rent by local government or independent allotment associations, for individuals to grow their own food. ...
Part of a garden in Bristol, England A flower bed in the gardens of Bristol Zoo, England Checkered flower bed in Tours, France A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. ...
The rod was in still in use as a common unit of measurement in the mid-1800s, when Henry David Thoreau used it frequently when describing distances in his work Walden.
Notes - ↑ A perch is also a unit of area of land = 1 square rod, and a unit of cubic measure of stonework, usually = 16.5 feet by 1 foot by 1.5 feet = 24.75 cubic feet.
See also The 5 furlong (1006 m) post on Epsom Downs A furlong is a measure of distance within Imperial units and U.S. customary units. ...
Perch is an antique unit of measure used in stonework, based on the pole or rod. ...
Popular culture and trivia - In the episode of The Simpsons entitled ‘A Star is Burns’, Grampa Simpson uttered: “My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!” That translates into 504 U.S. gallons per mile, or about 1.2 litres per metre! In units more normal for this purpose, it is 0.0020 mpg or 119,000 L/100 km.
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