·noun The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
II. Rood ·noun A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.
III. Rood ·noun A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.
South out of Fenchurch Street, at No.23, to 41 Eastcheap (P.O. Directory). In Billingsgate and Langb...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
A name for the brent-goose. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
An old parish in Aldgate Ward, conterminous with the Parish of Holy Trinity (S. 142). Stow tells us ...