About The Word Tod
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What's The Definition Of Tod?
[n] (British) a unit of weight for wool equal to about 28 pounds
[adj] (British) alone and on your own; "don't just sit there on your tod" Synonyms | Synonyms for Tod: unaccompanied Related Terms | Find terms related to Tod: See Also | weight | weight unit Tod In Webster's Dictionary \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.
The ivy tod is heavy with snow. --Coleridge.
2. An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually
twenty-eight pounds.
3. A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail.
The wolf, the tod, the brock. --B. Jonson.
{Tod stove}, a close stove adapted for burning small round
wood, twigs, etc. [U. S.] --Knight.
\Tod\, v. t. & i. To weigh; to yield in tods. [Obs.] |
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