Devices
- Birch rod, made out of twigs from birch or other trees for corporal punishment
- Connecting rod, in an internal combustion engine
- Divining rod, two rods believed by some to find water in a practice known as dowsing
- Slang for firearm
- Fishing rod, a tool used to catch fish
- Lightning rod, a conductor on top of a building to protect the building in the event of lightning
- Measuring rod, a kind of ruler
- Switch (corporal punishment), a piece of wood as used as a staff or for corporal punishment, or a bundle of such switches
- Control rod, used to control the rate of fission in a nuclear reactor
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