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▪ I. ˈrodding, (vbl.) n.1
[f. rod n.1 or v.]
1. The action of beating with a rod; caning.
1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 478 Their capitall punishments are hanging, rodding, knocking on the heads, drowning. 1906H. S. Salt Consolat. Faddist 30 The less they did attend, The more he brayed of rodding.
2. techn.
a. (See quot.)
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining, Rodding, the operation of fixing or repairing wooden cage guides in shafts.
b. The action of rod v. 4.
a1890Electr. Rev. XVI. 14 (Cent.), In most of the systems the cable is inserted by a process technically called rodding—that is, pushing rods through the duct from one manhole to the next. 1945W. J. Woolgar Pract. Plumber & Sanitary Engin. 313/1 Rodding eyes are useful at changes of direction and at the top end of a long branch drain. 1953L. B. Escritt Building Sanitation (ed. 3) viii. 94 A light manhole cover is provided in a central position to facilitate rodding. 1973BSI News Apr. 5 (caption) Members of the code drafting committee..watch a demonstration of rodding to remove blockages in drainage pipes.
3. concr. Metal in the form of rods; an arrangement of rods.
1889G. Finlay Eng. Railway 80 It has been found that a steel channel section of rodding is far superior for the purpose. 1899Daily News 1 July 4/5 Electro pneumatic signalling does away with rodding and wires.
4. Geol. A linear structure in metamorphic rocks characterized by the arrangement of grains of a constituent mineral, esp. quartz, in parallel rods. Also rodding structure.
1907B. N. Peach et al. Geol. Structure of N.-W. Highlands of Scotland (Mem. Geol. Survey) xii. 211 In the exposures of these dykes, which happen to cross the direction of rodding almost at right angles, no plane-foliation is observable. 1923Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LXXIX. 439 In the hornblende-schists there is actual rodding or elongation of the crystals. 1953Proc. Geologists' Assoc. LXIV. 119 Rodding is developed from quartz that has been introduced into, or has segregated in, the rocks. 1970K. C. Jackson Textbk. Lithology vii. 426 Associated with the larger-scale folding may be the segregation of more mobile constituents such as quartz, resulting in a small⁓scale rodding structure.
▪ II. ˈrodding, vbl. n.2 Sc. rare.
[f. rodd, var. of rudd spawn: see redd n.]
The spawning of fish. Hence rodding-time.
1795Statist. Acc. Scotl., Campsie XV. 321 note, It is said that the raising of the Damhead..is the sole cause why the fish come not up in rodding time to the Glazert. |