Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Rood
Rood
A cross or crucifix with a sculpted, carved or moulded figure of Christ. Characters in Shakespeare often swore to the truth of a statement with the expression "by the rood" or "by the holy rood." Example from Shakespeare:
GERTRUDE:.Have you forgot me?
HAMLET:.No, by the rood, not so.
This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: Literature
- Category: Shakespeare
- Company:
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Industry/Domain: Design Category: Graphic design
Metro
A design language originally created by Microsoft for use on Windows Phone 7, and which has since been used on the Microsoft website, the Xbox 360 ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
Marouane937
0
Terms
58
Blossaries
3
Followers
Morocco's Weather and Average Temperatures
Category: Travel 1 4 Terms
Browers Terms By Category
- Railroad(457)
- Train parts(12)
- Trains(2)
Railways(471) Terms
- Conferences(3667)
- Event planning(177)
- Exhibition(1)
Convention(3845) Terms
- Hand tools(59)
- Garden tools(45)
- General tools(10)
- Construction tools(2)
- Paint brush(1)
Tools(117) Terms
- Prevention & protection(6450)
- Fire fighting(286)
Fire safety(6736) Terms
- Hats & caps(21)
- Scarves(8)
- Gloves & mittens(8)
- Hair accessories(6)