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| Main Entry: |
rod
[rod]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bar, pole |
| Synonyms: | baton, billet, birch, cane, cylinder, dowel, ingot, mace, pin, rodule, scepter, sceptre, shaft, slab, spike, staff, stave, stick, strip, switch, wand |
| Main Entry: | axle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shaft around which wheels rotate |
| Synonyms: | arbor, axis, gudgeon, mandrel, pin, pivot, pole, rod, shaft, spindle, stalk, stem, support |
| Notes: | axel is the figure-skating jump; axle is the pin or rod between two wheels |
| Main Entry: | baton |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stick used for conducting or for protection |
| Synonyms: | billy, billy club, blackjack, club, cudgel, mace, nightstick, rod, staff, truncheon, wand |
| Main Entry: | bolt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lock; part of lock |
| Synonyms: | bar, brad, catch, coupling, dowel, fastener, lag, latch, lock, nut, padlock, peg, pin, pipe, rivet, rod, screw, skewer, sliding bar, spike, stake, staple, stud |
| Antonyms: | key |
| Main Entry: | cane |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stick to aid walking of disabled |
| Synonyms: | pikestaff, pole, rod, staff, vade mecum, walking stick |
| Main Entry: | correction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discipline |
| Synonyms: | admonition, castigation, chastisement, punishment, punition, reformation, reproof, rod |
| Antonyms: | allowance, coddling, indulgence, permissiveness, petting, spoiling |
| Main Entry: | cudgel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | baton for hitting |
| Synonyms: | bastinado, bat, billy, billyclub, birch, blackjack, bludgeon, cane, club, cosh, ferule, mace, nightstick, paddle, rod, sap, shill, shillelagh, spontoon, stick, switch, truncheon |
| Main Entry: | discipline |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | punishment |
| Synonyms: | castigation, chastisement, comeuppance, correction, getting yours, hell to pay, punition, rod |
| Antonyms: | award, reward |
| Main Entry: | gun |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weapon that shoots |
| Synonyms: | 9 mm., Saturday-night special, Uzi, blaster, cannon, difference*, equalizer, flintlock, forty-five, handgun, hardware, howitzer, magnum, mortar, musket, ordnance, peashooter, persuader, piece*, pistol, revolver, rifle, rod, shotgun, thirty-eight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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