One scarificator has 13 blades arranged on three rods turning in the same direction (cf.
Square scarificators all had 16 steel blades that cut in the same direction and were arranged on three rods of five, six, and five blades respectively.
The stream was only from one and one half to three rods wide, quite winding, with occasional small islands, meadows, and some very swift and shallow places.
The Indian cut a path to the spot we had selected, which was usually within two or three rods of the water, and we carried up our baggage.
This side of the river being so encumbered with rocks, we crossed to the eastern or smoother shore, and proceeded to camp there, within two or three rods of the falls.
There was one or two companies on the hill in the same line with the others, and then two or more--three rods down, in front, near the hospital grounds.
I was up on the hill, about two or three rods up on the hill, so that I could not hear any orders given of anything of that kind--I could only see their movements.
He told me afterward, casually, that before we landed he had seen a drop of blood on the bank, when it was two or three rods off.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three rods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
