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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Island_of_St._Vincent%2C_particulars_of_valuable_freehold_property_-_called_the_Arnos_Vale_Estate%2C_containing_454_acres_3_roods%2C_or_thereabouts_-_situate_in_the_Parish_of_St._George%2C_in_the_Island_LOC_2015587806-1.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3312" data-file-height="5209" /></a><figcaption>Estate for sale on <a href="/wiki/St_Vincent_(island)" class="mw-redirect" title="St Vincent (island)">St Vincent</a>, with area given as 454 acres 3 roods (i.e. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="frac">454<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">3</span>⁄<span class="den">4</span></span> acres).</figcaption></figure> <p>A <b>rood</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span></span>/</a></span></span>; abbreviation: <b>ro</b><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>) is a historic English and international inch-pound measure of <a href="/wiki/Area" title="Area">area</a>, as well as an archaic English measure of <a href="/wiki/Length" title="Length">length</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rood_(unit)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Rood</i> is an archaic word for "pole", from <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Saxon language">Old English</a> <i>rōd</i> "pole", specifically "<a href="/wiki/Cross" title="Cross">cross</a>", from <a href="/wiki/Proto-Germanic" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Germanic">Proto-Germanic</a> <i>*rodo</i>, cognate to <a href="/wiki/Old_Saxon" title="Old Saxon">Old Saxon</a> <i>rōda</i>, <a href="/wiki/Old_High_German" title="Old High German">Old High German</a> <i>ruoda</i> "rod";<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the relation of <i>rood</i> to <i><a href="/wiki/Rod_(unit)" title="Rod (unit)">rod</a></i>, from Old English <i>rodd</i> "pole", is unclear; the latter was perhaps influenced by <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> <i>rudda</i> "club". </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Normandy" title="Normandy">Normandy</a>, where the rood was also used (before being replaced by metric units around 1800), it was known as a <i>vergée</i>, from the French word <i>verge</i> (stick, rod), which was borrowed in English (see <a href="/wiki/Virge" title="Virge">virge</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Measurement_of_area">Measurement of area</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rood_(unit)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Measurement of area"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Comparison_land_area_units.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Comparison_land_area_units.svg/298px-Comparison_land_area_units.svg.png" decoding="async" width="298" height="318" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Comparison_land_area_units.svg/447px-Comparison_land_area_units.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Comparison_land_area_units.svg/596px-Comparison_land_area_units.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="546" /></a><figcaption>Comparison of 1 rood (unit) with some Imperial and metric units of area</figcaption></figure> <p>Rood is an <a href="/wiki/English_unit" class="mw-redirect" title="English unit">English unit</a> of area equal to one quarter of an <a href="/wiki/Acre" title="Acre">acre</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or 10,890 square feet, exactly 1,011.7141056 m<sup>2</sup>. A rectangle that is one <a href="/wiki/Furlong" title="Furlong">furlong</a> (i.e., 10 <a href="/wiki/Chain_(unit)" title="Chain (unit)">chains</a>, or 40 rods) in length and one <a href="/wiki/Rod_(unit)" title="Rod (unit)">rod</a> in width is one rood in area, as is any space comprising 40 <a href="/wiki/Perch_(area)" class="mw-redirect" title="Perch (area)">perches</a> (a perch being one square rod). The <i>vergée</i> was also a quarter of a Normandy <i>acre</i>, and was equal to 40 square <i>perches</i> (1 Normandy <i>acre</i> = 160 square <i>perches</i>). </p><p>The rood was an important measure in <a href="/wiki/Surveying" title="Surveying">surveying</a> on account of its easy conversion to acres. When referring to areas, <b>rod</b> is often found in old documents and has exactly the same meaning as rood.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Linear_measure">Linear measure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rood_(unit)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Linear measure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Rod_(length)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rod (length)">Rod (length)</a></div> <p>A rood is also an obsolete British unit of linear measure between <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac">16<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span> and 24 feet (5.0–7.3 m). It is related to the German <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rute_(Einheit)" class="extiw" title="de:Rute (Einheit)"><i>Rute</i></a> and the Danish <a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_m%C3%A5leenheder#Længde" class="extiw" title="da:Danske måleenheder"><i>rode</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Klein2012_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Klein2012-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Klein1974_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Klein1974-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The original <a href="/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary" title="Oxford English Dictionary">OED</a> of 1914 said this sense was "now only in local use, and varying from 6 to 8 yards" (or 18 to 24 ft, "Rood", II.7). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rood_(unit)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rood_(Scots)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rood (Scots)">Rood (Scots)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rood_screen" title="Rood screen">Rood screen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_obsolete_units_of_measurement" title="List of obsolete units of measurement">List of obsolete units of measurement</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rood_(unit)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/OED" class="mw-redirect" title="OED">OED</a>, "Rood"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription 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.cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFKinne1829" class="citation book cs1">Kinne, William (1829). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=pTwPg95A52EC"><i>A short system of practical arithmetic: compiled from the best authorities [etc.]</i></a>. Glazier, Masters & Co. p. 29.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+short+system+of+practical+arithmetic%3A+compiled+from+the+best+authorities+%5Betc.%5D&rft.pages=29&rft.pub=Glazier%2C+Masters+%26+Co.&rft.date=1829&rft.aulast=Kinne&rft.aufirst=William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DpTwPg95A52EC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARood+%28unit%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0272%2FKC%2FKCAR%2F6%2F2;recurse=1">catalogue of old documents</a> with many areas quoted in acres, rods, and perches, including <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0272%2FKC%2FKCAR%2FMON%2F38">this one</a>, as recent as 1907.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Klein2012-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Klein2012_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKlein2012" class="citation book cs1">Klein, Herbert Arthur (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CrmuSiCFyikC"><i>The Science of Measurement: A Historical Survey</i></a>. 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Arthur (1974). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worldofmeasureme0000klei"><i>The world of measurements: masterpieces, mysteries and muddles of metrology</i></a></span>. 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style="width:1%">Volume</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Derived</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cubic_inch" title="Cubic inch">Cubic inch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cubic_foot" title="Cubic foot">Cubic foot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoppus" title="Hoppus">Hoppus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cubic_yard" title="Cubic yard">Cubic yard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cubic_mile" title="Cubic mile">Cubic mile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tmcft" title="Tmcft">Tmcft</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Cooking</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div 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