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Definition of Roods
1. rood [n] - See also: rood
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roods
Literary usage of Roods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Information for the People by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1842)
"It is proposed that the produce ol • t»o roods of potatoes shall go to the
maintenance • Ike cottager and his family, and that the rood t turnip* should be ..."
2. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"Besides matters of this kind, there were images of the Virgin or of the Saints ;
above all, roods or crucifixes, of especial potency, the virtues of which ..."
3. The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland: Adapted to the New Poor-law (1846)
"3 roods, 10 perches in Lough ... and 156 acres, 2 roods, 32 perches in the river
Inny and in small lakes, in the parish of Street,—and 15 acres, 1 rood, ..."
4. Commentaries on the Roman-Dutch Law by Simon van Leeuwen (1886)
"Except where in like proportion as in the case of lands sold by honden, that is
hundred roods or a smaller measure, we wish to state, that just as in the ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas and by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Joseph Payne (1830)
"The lands allotted in Snitterby, under the act, amounted to 1533 acres, 17 perches,
and, deducting the allotment for the glebe, 33 acres, 3 roods, ..."
6. Calendar of the Close Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Prepared by Great Britain Public Record Office, Great Britain Court of Chancery, H. C. Maxwell Lyte, William Henry Stevenson (1908)
"G$il. yearly ; John Geffrey, who holds ЗА roods of land and renders 2f</. ...
3 acres and ¡5 roods of land and renders 14£rf. yearly ; William Crane and ..."
7. Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope by Hendrik Carel Vos Leibbrandt, Jan van Riebeeck (1900)
"The spot on which the fort is to stand is about two fathoms higher than the water
in the river, we have therefore not made the canal more than "2 roods ..."
8. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Great Britain Court of Exchequer (1829)
"The lands allotted in Snitterby, under the act, amount to 1533 acres and 17
perches, and, deducting the allotments for the glebe, 33 acres, 3 roods, ..."
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