rood, meaning a pole and the cross, via Middle English, or the Scots haly ruid ("holy cross"). Several relics venerated as part of the True Cross are known...

Androis at Woundwick, Our Ladie at Halcro, Sant Colmis at Loch of Burwick, Ruid chappell in Sandwick, Sant Tola [Olaf] in Wydwall, Sant Colme in Hoxay, Sant...

the length section square inch square ell square fall (faw) Scots rood (ruid) Scots acre Eastern Scotland: oxgang (damh-imir) The area an ox could plough...