roods in English
noun
1
a crucifix, especially one positioned above the rood screen of a church or on a beam over the entrance to the chancel.
Every church building had to display the royal coat of arms on the chancel arch in place of the rood .
2
a measure of land area equal to a quarter of an acre.
It was part of an area of 15 acres, three roods and four perches originally granted to John Dickson.
noun
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1. Four roods equal one acre.
2. All the Ornaments of the Church, altars, pyxes, Aumbries, and tabernacles, crosses, roods, images, lights, fonts, holy water stoops, banners, thuribles and so on, which were in legal use in the second year of Edward VI, are still to be ‘in use.’