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  2. Ror - Wikipedia

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    Ror Religions Hinduism Languages Haryanvi, Hindi Country India Region Haryana, Uttar Pradesh Ror (or Rod) is a caste found primarily in the Indian states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

  3. Daṇḍa (Hindu punishment) - Wikipedia

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    Daṇḍa" (Sanskrit: दण्ड, literally 'stick', 'staff', or 'rod', an ancient symbol of authority) [1] is the Hindu term for punishment. In ancient India, the ruler generally sanctioned punishments but other legal officials could also play a part. Punishments were handed out in response to criminal activity.

  4. Staff of Moses - Wikipedia

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    The Staff of Moses, also known as the Rod of Moses or Staff of God, is mentioned in the Bible and Quran as a walking stick used by Moses. According to the Book of Exodus , the staff ( Hebrew : מַטֶּה , romanized : maṭṭe , translated "rod" in the King James Bible ) was used to produce water from a rock, was transformed into a snake and ...

  5. Rod - Wikipedia

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    Connecting rod, main, coupling, or side rod, in a reciprocating engine; Control rod, used to control the rate of fission in a nuclear reactor; Divining rod, two rods believed by some to find water in a practice known as dowsing; Fishing rod, a tool used to catch fish, like a long pole with a hook on the end

  6. Dowel - Wikipedia

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    A dowel plate. The traditional tool for making dowels is a dowel plate, an iron (or better, hardened tool steel) plate with a hole having the size of the desired dowel.To make a dowel, a piece of wood is split or whittled to a size slightly bigger than desired and then driven through the hole in the dowel plate.

  7. Rod of Asclepius - Wikipedia

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    The emergency medical services' Star of Life features a rod of Asclepius In Greek mythology, the Rod of Asclepius (⚕; / æ s ˈ k l iː p i ə s /, Ancient Greek: Ῥάβδος τοῦ Ἀσκληπιοῦ, Rhábdos toû Asklēpioû, sometimes also spelled Asklepios), also known as the Staff of Aesculapius and as the asklepian, [1] is a serpent-entwined rod wielded by the Greek god Asclepius ...

  8. Rod (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool [1] and unit of length of various historical definitions. In British imperial and US customary units, it is defined as 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, equal to exactly 1 ⁄ 320 of a mile, or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards (a quarter of a surveyor's chain), and is exactly 5.0292 meters.

  9. Slavic Native Faith - Wikipedia

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    It has deep senses related to its Slavic etymology, that would be lost through translation, which express the central concepts of the Slavic Native Faith. [71] Rod is conceived as the absolute , primordial God, supreme ancestor of the universe, that begets all things, [ 71 ] and at the same time as the kin, the lineage of generation which is ...