Meanings of square rods in English

Their shadows give the tired lawyer a few square rods of breathing space.

He had six square rods.

The area inclosed was about 25 square rods in June, and perhaps half as much at the end of summer.

The plot measured considerably more than two acres, and there was a space of about twenty square rods for each.

The whole field must have contained 46.626 square rods.

Von Baumbach, of Wauwatosa, Wis., raised from five acres less ten square rods seventeen hundred bushels big measure beside quantities given the pickers.

He was cleaning up several square rods of bed-rock in the ancient river bed on the hill-top, and the dirt was rich in gold.

The average area of the rice field in Japan is less than five square rods and that of her upland fields only about twenty.

The side of the central square , left by the farmer, is 4.8284 rods, so it contains 23.313 square rods.