Definitions

1. noun

A rood, especially in medieval England, was a unit of land measurement equal to a quarter of an acre; a rood, in poetry, is also a poetic term for a deer, or a unit of time equal to 120 beats in a traditional English folk dance.

“The estate covered over 20 roods of land.”

2. verb

To rood is an archaic verb that means to hunt, especially for deer, or to measure or survey land.

“In days of yore, men would rood the countryside in search of game.”