rodded

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of rod.

   After hours of effort, the crew rodded the clogged sewer line.

   The rifle barrel had been rodded clean before the next shot.

   Note

   The final d doubles before the ending, as it does in other short one-syllable verbs, so the spelling is never "roded." The same form follows have and be, and it also serves as the adjective for reinforced work. Beyond the building and lightning-rod uses, the verb has a vulgar slang meaning and a slang meaning for hot-rodding a car. The technical reading is safest where the setting is plainly construction.

2. 2
   adjective

   Reinforced by a rodding process.

   The rodded beams passed every stress test the inspectors ran.

   Engineers specified rodded sections wherever the structure bore the greatest weight.

   Similarreinforced

   Oppositeunreinforced

   Note

   A yes-or-no label for structural work: a beam or section is either rodded or it is not, so the word takes no "more" or "very." It usually stands before the noun it classifies, as in rodded beams and rodded sections. It is the participle of the verb settled into a description of finished work.

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