Consider a long, thin rod of mass and length .

You ought to find a long rod of metal, very thin and fine.

He struck the door three times with the silver tip of his long thin black rod.

I saw a Syrian who held in his hands a thin rod like a reed.

He gripped the thin rod with both hands and tried to force it further down, but nothing happened.

In (b) a thin rod of square section is twisted and then rolled.

Then he bent down and picked up a thin rod from the ground.

He held out a thin rod that glowed on the tip.

That should give us a good twenty meters of sliver, like a long, very thin rod.

The widow took a long thin rod in one hand.