Tod

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tod \Tod\, v. t. & i.
     To weigh; to yield in tods. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Tod \Tod\ (t[o^]d), n. [Akin to D. todde a rag, G. zotte shag,
     rag, a tuft of hair, Icel. toddi a piece of a thing, a tod of
     wool.]
     1. A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump. [R.] "An ivy todde."
        --Spenser.
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              The ivy tod is heavy with snow.       --Coleridge.
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     2. An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually
        twenty-eight pounds.
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     3. A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail.
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              The wolf, the tod, the brock.         --B. Jonson.
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     {Tod stove}, a close stove adapted for burning small round
        wood, twigs, etc. [U. S.] --Knight.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tod
       adj : alone and on your own; "don't just sit there on your tod"
       n : a unit of weight for wool equal to about 28 pounds