The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word ROD
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More clues leading to the result ROD
- Imperial measure that most anglers use
- Staff perhaps travelled on bicycles mostly
- Cruel king — he dismissed staff
- Staff boy
- One might make catch, some hero, dashing?
- Don’t start to poke with a finger or stick
- Something for angler in River Oder
- Perch, caught with this?
- Endless fish brought up, caught with this?
- Upended Beetle's axle
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What does ROD mean?
ROD noun- A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
- A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
- A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
- A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
- An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.
- A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.
- A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, 1/4 chain, 5 1/2 yards, 16 1/2 feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
- An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5 1/2 yards.
- A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30 1/4 square yards or 1/160 acre.
- A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a drive-shaft.
- A rod cell: a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
- Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
- A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 1/8 to 1/4 inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
- A pistol; a gun.
- A penis.
- A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.
- A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
- A Cuisenaire rod.
- A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.
- To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
- To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.
- To penetrate sexually.
- To hot rod.