1) Altar piece 2) Area of the back door 3) Big cross 4) Big crucifix 5) Cathedral cross 6) Chancel cross 7) Chancel decoration 8) Chancel display 9) Chancel entrance display 10) Cross 11) Crucifix 12) Crucifix variety 13) Crucifixion symbol 14) Dutch surname 15) English rod 16) Forty square rods 17) Fourth of an acre
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1) Cross 2) Crucifix
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3811 MB Amersfoort ==Ideals and policies== Rood`s main goals are the promotion of a socialist society and promotion of its mother party and attempts to attract new people into it. == Organisation == Formally, ROOD has been a vereniging (voluntary association) since 2003 with the goal to let young people participate in creating a socialist society....
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A rood is a cross or crucifix, especially a large one in a church. Alternatively, it is a large sculpture or painting of the crucifixion of Jesus. Rood is an archaic word for pole, from Old English rōd `pole`, specifically `cross`, from Proto-Germanic *rodo, cognate to Old Saxon rōda, Old High German ruoda `rod`. Rood was originally the on...
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[unit] Rood has several distinct meanings, all derived from the same basic etymology. This article refers to the historic English and international inch-pound measure of area, as well as the archaic English measure of length. ==Etymology== `Rood` is an archaic word for `pole`, from Old English rōd `pole`, specifically `cross`, from Proto-G...
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(areal unit of measurement) area of land equal to 40 perches, 2.5 chains, 1,210 sq yds. Four roods = 1 acre (E 179); area of land equivalent to a quarter of an acre, being one furlong (220yds) long and one perch, rod, or pole (5.5yds) wide (R 169); a strip of land measuring 1 furlong (40 rods) by 1 rod (C, 37)
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cross or crucifix at entrance to church chancel
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old unit of land area equal to 1/4 acre
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• (n.) A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it. • (n.) A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole. • (n.) The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
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a cross erected at the entry to the chancel. Roods often had figures of the Virgin Mary on one side and St. John on the other.
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(from the article `rod`) ...The word rod derives from Old English rodd and is akin to Old Norse rudda (`club`). Etymologically rod is also akin to the Dutch rood which ...
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(from the article `rod`) ...to a land area of 40 square rods, equal to one-quarter acre, or 10,890 square feet (1,012 square metres). It also denoted just one square rod, or ...
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Alternative name for the cross of Christ, often applied to the large crucifix placed on a beam or screen at the entrance to the chancel of a church. ...
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a large crucifix (christ on the cross) usually over the entrance to the chancel. A rood tower or spire is one situated over the crossing. See Church Design.
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The crucifix at the entrance to the chancel. Usually stood on a beam, with attendant figures of St Mary and St John. Some modern versions are suspended, especially where there is no screen.
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1. A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it. ... Generally, the Trinity is represented, the Father as an elderly man fully clothed, with a nimbus around his head, and holding the cross on which the Son is represented as crucified, the Holy Spirit descending in the form of a dove near the Son's head. Figure...
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The crucifix at the entrance to the chancel. Usually stood on a beam, with attendant figures of St Mary and St John. Some modern versions are suspended, especially where there is no screen.
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(areal unit of measurement) area of land equal to 40 perches, 2.5 chains, 1,210 sq yds. Four roods = 1 acre (E 179); area of land equivalent to a quarter of an acre, being one furlong (220yds) long and one perch, rod, or pole (5.5yds) wide (R 169); a strip of land measuring 1 furlong (40 rods) by 1 rod (C, 37)
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Rood (rōd)
noun [ Anglo-Saxon
rōd a cross; akin to Old Saxon
rōda , Dutch
roede rod, German
ruthe ,
rute , Old High German
ruota . Confer
Rod a measure.]
1. A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Ch...
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The rood is an imperial unit of measurement of area, equal to 40 square perches or poles, or 1210 square yards.
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In architecture, a rood or rode is a cross or crucifix. The term is more particularly applied to the large cross erected in Roman Catholic churches over the entrance of the chancel, or choir. This is often of very large size, and when complete is, like other crucifixes, accompanied by the figures of St John and the Blessed Virgin, placed one on eac...
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Cross or Crucifix.
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crucifix; often people would take an oath 'by the rood'.
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