rood

noun5

1. •
   A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre.

   • […] a bumptious fool whose god was property, not property in vast estates such as a true man might worship, but in paltry roods. — 1938
2. •
   (historical) An area of sixty-four square yards.
3. •
   (no longer used) A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.

   • Have you forgot me? No, by the rood, not so. — 1599
4. •
   (dialect, no longer used) A measure of five and a half yards in length.

   • Thus Satan […] his other parts besides / Prone on the flood, extended long and large, / Lay floating many a rood […] — 1667
5. •
   (no longer used) The human face.

   • Nou goth sonne under wode,— Me reweth, Marie, thi faire Rode. Nou goth sonne under tre,— — 1932